ok, I lied

Ok, I will make a small comment about the self-medicating motherhood thing, can't help it:

From the article:
Having babies can sometimes keep personal problems at bay.
"[It] keeps you busy — if not through adoption, than in pregnancy, you get the oxytocin [often called the 'hormone of love'] bursts," said Honos-Webb. "You get attention from other people and you define your own role — all those things manage depression."

That sounds good, all official and everything. Definitely not true for everyone though (in fact very very few, I would speculate). But personally I can say that I HATE pregnancy. Love the end result, but hate pregnancy. I do not feel great, no bursts of love hormone. No extra attention, unless it's for my Mom to yell at me to eat healthier cause I'm pregnant. But really she does that when I'm not pregnant too. In fact that's been for my whole life! The first pregnancy was the only one where I got any extra attention and it really wasn't all that much, mainly focusing on how to get around problems my pregnancy caused (my being too tired to handle a long shift on the 6th workday, my needing help climbing on the counter tops to put up signs, needing someone else to use oven cleaner on the ovens, etc. and Look how swollen she is!! ). And after the 2nd pregnancy I've always got a lot of negative attention, so really for me pregnancy would be a possible cause of depression, not a reprieve from it!