Stopping Antidepressants During Pregnancy Can Be a Health Risk, Research Shows

Confusion about the safety of taking the drugs during pregnancy has led to mental health emergencies for some expectant ...

Discontinuing antidepressants in pregnancy nearly doubles risk of mental health emergencies, finds study

Pregnant patients who stopped taking their antidepressant medication during pregnancy were almost twice as likely to experience a mental health emergency compared with pregnant patients who continued ...

Pregnancy-related complications are not the most common causes of maternal death among pregnant women, new mothers

Researchers at Columbia University have found that accidental drug overdose, homicide, and suicide are the leading causes of ...
Nature

What drugs are safe during pregnancy? There’s a shocking lack of data

In the early 1960s, after studies confirmed that it was linked to congenital disorders in more than 10,000 children, ...
Healio

Antidepressant discontinuation during pregnancy raises risk for mental health emergencies

Pregnant women who stopped taking their antidepressants during pregnancy were almost twice as likely to have a mental health ...
Medscape

Stopping Depression Meds in Pregnancy Linked to Higher Psychiatric Emergencies

Discontinuing or interrupting the use of an antidepressant during pregnancy is linked to significantly higher mental health emergency department visits.

Pregnancy may tune women's brains to infant cues, study suggests

Pregnant women react more positively than non-pregnant women when exposed to audio recordings, videos, and images of infants. This suggests that pregnancy mentally prepares women to process infant ...
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If you’re pregnant and uninsured, Medicaid might be your answer

Medicaid pays for more than 40% of births in the U.S. and an even higher percentage in rural areas, according to KFF.