Tehran University of Medical Sciences Acta Medica Iranica 0044-6025 58 10 2020 12 08 540 542 Aliashraf Mozafari Clinical Research Development Unit, Shahid Mostafa Khomeini Hospital, Ilam University of Medical Sciences, Ilam, Iran Amir Adibi Department of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Ilam University of Medical Sciences, Ilam, Iran Tayebe Jamshidbeigi Department of Internal Medicine, Ilam University of Medical Sciences,Ilam, Iran Elham Shafiei Clinical Research Development Unit, Shahid Mostafa Khomeini Hospital, Ilam University of Medical Sciences, Ilam, Iran Ali Sahebi Clinical Research Development Unit, Shahid Mostafa Khomeini Hospital, Ilam University of Medical Sciences, Ilam, Iran 2020 03 09 2020 05 04 Postpartum depression (PPD) is a mood disorder that can affect women after childbirth, and this disorder can strike fathers as well as mothers. The study reports a 28-year-old man who attempted suicide three times following his wife's delivery and newborn baby boy. The psychiatric assessment showed that the man revealed major depression following childbirth. So effective mental disorders screening and health care services must be provided for fathers as well as mothers and children. https://acta.tums.ac.ir/index.php/acta/article/view/8351