baby blues
noun [plural]Definition
› a feeling of sadness that some women experience after they have given birth to a baby: According to this article, as many as 60 percent of women suffer from the baby blues.Mental and psychiatric disorders
(Definition of baby blues noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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