A number of studies have reported no significant relationship
between postpartum depression and breastfeeding status
[32, 39, 85–91]. However, two of these studies did report
finding a nonsignificant trend suggestive of an inverse association
[86, 89]. In any case, most of these findings were
incidental; the primary purpose of those investigations was
not to evaluate the association between breastfeeding and
postpartumdepression.However, recent data analyzed in our
lab also failed to find support for a relationship between
breastfeeding intention and initiation when controlling for
other risk factors for postpartum depression.