Under the law in Texas, she was sentenced to life imprisonment, but, after a retrial, was committed to a mental hospital. Guy de Maupassant, in his novel Mont-Oriol (1887) described a brief postpartum psychotic episode. Charlotte Perkins Gilman, in her short story The Yellow Wallpaper (1892) described severe depression with psychotic features starting after childbirth, perhaps similar to that experienced by the author herself. Stacey Slater, a fictional character in the long-running BBC soap-opera EastEnders had postpartum psychosis in 2016, and was one of the shows biggest storylines that year. Legal status
Postpartum psychosis, especially when there is a marked component of depression, has a small risk of filicide. In acute manic or cycloid cases, this risk is about 1%. Most of these incidents have occurred before the mother came under treatment, and some have been accidental. Several nations including Canada, United Kingdom, Australia, and Italy recognize postpartum mental illness as a mitigating factor in cases where mothers kill their children. In the United States, such a legal distinction was not made as of 2009, and an insanity defense is not available in all states.The United Kingdom has had the Infanticide Act since 1922. Books written about postpartum psychosis and postpartum bipolar disorder
Apart from the two monographs mentioned in the text (references 1 and 86), the following books have been published about these psychoses:

Ripping, Dr (1877) Die Geistesstörungen der Schwangeren, Wöchnerinnen und Säugenden. Stuttgart, Enke. Knauer O (1897) Über Puerperale Psychose für practische Ärzte. Berlin, Karger. Twomey T (2009) Understanding Postpartum Psychosis: A Temporary Madness. Westport, Praeger.
Screening related conditions
Because several well-known and high-profile cases of athletes experiencing sudden unexpected death due to cardiac arrest, such as Reggie White and Marc-Vivien Foé, a growing movement is making an effort to have both professional and school-based athletes screened for cardiac and other related conditions, usually through a careful medical and health history, a good family history, a comprehensive physical examination including auscultation of heart and lung sounds and recording of vital signs such as heart rate and blood pressure, and increasingly, for better efforts at detection, such as an electrocardiogram.An electrocardiogram (ECG) is a relatively straightforward procedure to administer and interpret, compared to more invasive or sophisticated tests; it can reveal or hint at many circulatory disorders and arrhythmias. Part of the cost of an ECG may be covered by some insurance companies, though routine use of ECGs or other similar procedures such as echocardiography (ECHO) are still not considered routine in these contexts. Widespread routine ECGs for all potential athletes during initial screening and then during the yearly physical assessment could well be too expensive to implement on a wide scale, especially in the face of the potentially very large demand.