A proportion of women enter pregnancy with active psychiatric symptoms or disorders, with or without concomitant psychotropic medication. Studies report that exposure to untreated depression and stress during pregnancy may have negative consequences for birth outcome and child development. Studies also ...
We then conducted sensitivity analyses100 for the studies that stratified for antidepressant medication use during pregnancy to compare the birth outcomes for depressed women treated and not treated with antidepressants. Fourth, for studies that measured depression more than once at different times or ...
Depression during pregnancy has been associated with an increased risk of adverse neurodevelopmental outcomes in the child and epigenetic mechanisms could be one of the biological pathways to explain this association. In 844 mother–child pairs from the Avon Longitudinal Study of Parents and Children, ...
you should talk with your doctor before the birth about the possibility of starting antidepressant medication soon after your baby is born. As a general rule, doctors try to minimize the amount of medication prescribed during pregnancy, but sometimes the risks of depression are more significant than...
Participants reported on psychotropic medication use during pregnancy (IPT: 21 [22.3%] and EUC: 29 [28.2%]; χ2 = 0.88; P = .35). Table 1 provides sample characteristics delineated by IPT vs EUC group. Retention rates through prenatal assessments were 88% (101 of 115) in IPT ...
"Those women should carefully consider their options. There were women with severe illness who felt they could not stop medication, and they continued treatment in pregnancy. This group had a high rate of relapse into depression but it might have been even higher if they stopped their treatment...
You can also reduce your risk by staying on an effective medication during pregnancy after a thorough discussion with your health care provider. Keep in mind that doses sometimes need to be increased during pregnancy to keep your depression in remission. There are several other steps you can ...
Furthermore, depression medication during pregnancy may affect language development (Weikum, Oberlander, Hensch, & Werker, 2012). Many other factors are likely to affect the relationship between parental depression and language development. For example, language development has been linked to both ...
Ross LE, Grigoriadis S, Mamisashvili L, VonderPorten EH, Roerecke M, Rehm J, et al. Selected pregnancy and delivery outcomes after exposure to antidepressant medication: a systematic review and meta-analysis outcomes after antidepressant use in pregnancy. JAMA Psychiatry. 2013;70:1–8. ...
The use of antidepressants during pregnancy doubled between 1999 and 2003, according to a 2007 American Journal ofObstetrics and Gynecologystudy, but many women avoid taking medication because of safety concerns. In fact, Manber said, 94 percent of the depressed women involved in her study expresse...