Interestingly, the effect of prenatal depression on the mother's perception of the average infant's difficulty was not significant in the multivariate model (β = 0.42, ns). However, there was a significant main effect of time, indicating that all mothers perceived greater levels of child difficulty after the birth than prenatally for average infants (β = 1.58, p < 0.001). Whether mothers were depressed or not, they perceived greater child difficulty in average or ‘other’ infants one day after childbirth than they had during pregnancy. Again, statistical significance was found with mothers’ age (β = −0.52, p < 001) and education (β = 0.53, p < 0.01), suggesting that older mothers and more years of education perceived the average child as less difficult.