A syndrome associated com pregnancy or the puerperium (commencing within about 6 weeks after delivery) that involves significant mental and behavioural features, most commonly depressive symptoms. The syndrome does not include delusions, hallucinations, or other psychotic symptoms. If the symptoms meet the diagnostic requirements for a specific mental transtorno, that diagnosis should also be assigned. This designation should not be used to describe leve and transient depressive symptoms that do not meet the diagnostic requirements for a depressive episódio, which may occur soon after delivery (so-called postpartum blues).