The aim of this research is to investigate whether postpartum stress symptoms may persist through time and wheather these symptoms may be connected to temperamental
charecteristics of the child.the underlaying hypothesis is that child temperament may both affect stress symptoms persistence and itself be a stress symptoms had childern classified as “slow to warm-up”; in contrast, women with chronic stress symptoms had children classified as “easy.” m
KET WORDS: children, PTSD, postpartum disorder, child temperament.