WOMEN & CHILDREN Quality of life, postnatal depression and baby gender Claude de Tychey PhD Professor of Clinical Psychology, Groupe de Recherche en Psychologie de la Sante ´ (GREPSA), Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive et Clinique, Universite ´ Nancy 2, Nancy Cedex, France Serge Brianc ¸on MD Professor of Public Health, Ecole de Sante ´ Publique, Faculte ´ de me ´decine, Universite ´ Henri Poincare ´ Nancy 1, Vandoeuvre- les-Nancy, France Joe ¨lle Lighezzolo PhD Master of Conferences, HDR of Clinical Psychology (GREPSA), Universite ´ Nancy 2, Nancy Cedex, France Elisabeth Spitz PhD Professor of Health Psychology, Laboratoire de Psychologie, Universite ´ de Metz, Metz Cedex, France Bernard Kabuth MD Child Psychiatrist, Chief of Child Psychiatry Unit of Nancy Brabois Universitary Hospital, Vandoeuvre, France Valerie de Luigi MSc Health Psychologist, Laboratoire de Psychologie, Universite ´ de Metz, Metz Cedex, France Catherine Messembourg MSc Health Psychologist, Laboratoire de Psychologie Universite ´ de Metz, ı ˆle du Saulcy Metz, Cedex, France Franc ¸oise Girvan MSc Clinician Psychologist (GREPSA), Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive et Clinique Universite ´ Nancy 2, Nancy, Cedex, France Aurore Rosati MSc Clinician Psychologist (GREPSA), Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive et Clinique Universite ´ Nancy 2, Nancy, Cedex, France Audrey Thockler MSc Clinician Psychologist (GREPSA), Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive et Clinique Universite ´ Nancy 2, Nancy, Cedex, France Stephanie Vincent MSc Clinician Psychologist (GREPSA), Laboratoire de Psychologie Cognitive et Clinique Universite ´ Nancy 2, Nancy, Cedex, France Submitted for publication: 23 February 2006 Accepted for publication: 19 October 2006 312 Ó 2007 The Authors. Journal compilation Ó 2007 Blackwell Publishing Ltd doi: 10.1111/j.1365-2702.2006.01911.x