Maybe they should just outlaw fertility treatments?
And vasectomies, etc. are elective procedures. They often fail. My dad had one (after he had three kids, including me), but it didn't work.
Thursday, 19 July 2001 15:03 (ET)
Postpartum depression blamed for suicide
CHICAGO, July 19 (UPI) -- The quadruplets born to Aracely Erives last week
were thriving Thursday in the neonatal intensive care unit at Loyola
University Medical Center but the tiny babies never will know their mother.
Erives' body was pulled from Lake Michigan, the apparent victim of
postpartum depression -- the fourth woman to commit suicide in Chicago as a
result of the condition in recent weeks.
Erives, 27, was last seen outside her South Side home Tuesday, promising
her husband she would return in an hour. Her body was found 10 feet offshore
in about eight feet of water after a friend spotted her 1991 burgundy Nissan
parked near the Adler Planetarium and called police.
Friends said Erives desperately wanted children and was having trouble
conceiving. Hospital officials would not say whether she took fertility
drugs to conceive the three boys and girl, who were reported in good
condition.
Erives' husband, Jesus Sandoval, told police his wife had been suffering
from postpartum depression since she had delivered July 12. She had been
released from the hospital, where she had been since May 22, Sunday.
Police said Erives' body had no obvious injuries and there was no evidence
of foul play in her car. She left no suicide note, however.
Neighbors said Erives expressed nervousness over caring for so many babies
when she found out she was carrying quadruplets. Family members told police
Erives became depressed at the end of her first trimester.
"She could not cry. She could not laugh," a police report said. "She would
rather have cancer than this disease."
Police said Erives became upset Sunday when her family refused to let her
leave her home, screaming she would rather die "than live like a caged
animal."
Susan Feingold, a Highland Park clinical psychologist, said there are
indications that taking fertility drugs can heighten symptoms of depression.
"Extra hormones add to the postpartum depression risk factor," she told
the Chicago Tribune.
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