The study investigates the effectiveness of the mindfulness-based intervention "Mindful with your Baby" in women with babies between 5-9 months postpartum who experience heightened levels of postpartum depression, anxiety and/or parental stress. The intervention "Mindful with your Baby" is one of the very few interventions for maternal postnatal mental health issues that takes the bond between mother and infant into account. It is hypothesized that the "Mindful with your Baby" intervention will reduce levels of postpartum depression, anxiety and parental stress, and improve mother-infant behavioral interaction and increase neural synchrony between mother and infant brains.
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Change from baseline postpartum depressive symptoms
Timeframe: before the intervention (baseline, week 0), halfway through the intervention (week 4), post-intervention (week 8) and after 10-weeks follow-up (week 18)
Change from baseline postpartum anxiety symptoms
Timeframe: before the intervention (baseline, week 0), halfway through the intervention (week 4), post-intervention (week 8) and after 10-weeks follow-up (week 18)
Change from baseline parental stress
Timeframe: before the intervention (baseline, week 0), halfway through the intervention (week 4), post-intervention (week 8) and after 10-weeks follow-up (week 18)
Change from baseline mother-infant bonding
Timeframe: Before the intervention (baseline, week 0) and post-intervention (week 8)
Change from baseline neural synchrony between mother and infant (EEG outcome 1)
Timeframe: Before the intervention (baseline, week 0) and post-intervention (week 8)
Change from baseline neural synchrony between mother and infant (EEG outcome 2)
Timeframe: Before the intervention (baseline, week 0) and post-intervention (week 8)