In general, prenatally depressed mothers held more negative views about their children before birth, immediately after birth, and then throughout the first two years of child development than non-depressed mothers. The present study showed that even at one day postpartum, before mothers had sufficient time to interact with their newborns, depressed mothers reported negative perceptions of their infant. One prior study had found an impact of prenatal depression on negative perceptions at two months postpartum (McGrath et al., 2008 and Whiffen and Gotlib, 1989). Although newborns and young infants of depressed mothers have been found to express more irritability and behavioral markers of difficult temperament than other infants, perhaps due to the biochemical effects of depression on the fetus during pregnancy (Field et al., 2006 and Lester et al., 2013), a higher level of mothers’ negative perception only one day after childbirth suggests that newborns’ difficult behavior at this time could be more in the eye of the beholder than in the actual behavior of the infant.