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The exact cause isn’t known. Hormone levels change during pregnancy and right after childbirth. Those hormone changes may produce chemical changes in the brain that play a part in causing depression. Feeling depressed doesn’t mean that you are a bad person, that you did something wrong or that you brought this on yourself.
