2016 Delaware Code
Title 16 - Health and Safety
CHAPTER 8D. MATERNAL MENTAL HEALTH
§ 802D. Definitions.

As used in this chapter:

(1) "Maternal depression" means a wide range of emotional and psychological reactions that a woman may experience during pregnancy or after childbirth, as the range of reactions is defined in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders. The reactions may include: feelings of despair or extreme guilt; prolonged sadness; lack of energy; difficulty concentrating; fatigue; extreme changes in appetite; or thoughts of suicide or harming the baby.

(2) "Maternal health-care provider" means a physician, midwife, advanced practice registered nurse, registered nurse, physician assistant, or other health care practitioner acting within his or her lawful scope of practice while attending a woman who presents with signs of maternal depression.

80 Del. Laws, c. 293, § 1; 70 Del. Laws, c. 186, § 1.;