BEIJING, CHINA – APRIL 02: A young Chinese cries as she waits for feeding at a foster care center on April 2, 2014 in Beijing, China. China’s orphanages and foster homes used to be filled with healthy girls, reflecting the country’s one-child policy and its preference for sons. Now the vast majority of orphans are sick or disabled. China says it has 576,000 orphans in its child welfare system though outside groups put the number at closer to a million. The parents who abandon them either cannot afford treatment or feel an inability to cope with raising a child who has special needs. In many cases an unwanted baby is never registered so the parents can skirt the one-child policy if they try for another.
Kevin Frayer/Getty ImagesHaving a baby can make a woman lose her mind, but doctors aren’t sure why it happens.
Post-partum psychosis affects one or two in every 1,000 women after having baby.
It can cause women to hear voices and have visions… other symptoms include anxiety and profound sadness.
But doctors have no idea what causes the psychosis.
