{"id":865,"date":"2007-10-04T23:33:20","date_gmt":"2007-10-05T03:33:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/ttc\/?p=865"},"modified":"2007-10-04T23:33:20","modified_gmt":"2007-10-05T03:33:20","slug":"depression-and-pregnancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/?p=865","title":{"rendered":"Depression and Pregnancy"},"content":{"rendered":"

An interesting article regarding antidepressant use during pregnancy.<\/a>
\n‘“The risks of untreated depression during pregnancy are significant,” Berard, from the CHU Sainte-Justine Hospital in Montreal, said. “Given the safety of most antidepressants during pregnancy, a careful evaluation of the risk\/benefit ratio should be done before deciding to discontinue their use. Although physicians and women think they are protecting their unborn child, they might be doing just the contrary.” ‘<\/i><\/p>\n

Interesting.<\/p>\n

It was also one of the things I forgot to bring up with the Midwife, and it is making me slightly nervous. I don’t think<\/i> it’ll be a problem, as I do have a significant medical reason for staying on my anti-depressant. (And to be honest, other than a couple of weeks really early on in this pregnancy I am feeling very well emotionally!) I just hope they aren’t disapproving. I am open to switching, especially if it turns out I can’t stay on celexa during breastfeeding. I’m a little worried about how switching would go (if I switch and find out the new one doesn’t work for me very well, etc), but breastfeeding is very important to me so it’d be worth the trial-and-error.<\/p>\n

Luckily, being on anti-depressants does not make me any higher risk or anything. It’s just a side issue. Hopefully it doesn’t affect the baby at all, but I would be far more worried about how my depression would affect the baby.<\/p>\n

I am also a little worried about what’s going to happen (to me) after the baby is born. I know that having diagnosed depression puts me at a higher risk for post-partum depression. Since my depression seems to be managed just fine with medication (at least this particular medication), I am hoping<\/i> that, with some small adjustments of dosage, if necessary, I will avoid any major depression after the baby is born. I sure hope so.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

An interesting article regarding antidepressant use during pregnancy. ‘“The risks of untreated depression during pregnancy are significant,” Berard, from the CHU Sainte-Justine Hospital in Montreal, said. “Given the safety of most antidepressants during pregnancy, a careful evaluation of the risk\/benefit ratio should be done before deciding to discontinue their use. Although physicians and women think […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":71,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[13,57],"class_list":["post-865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-depression","tag-pregnant"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/71"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=865"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/865\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=865"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=865"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lunardreams.net\/baby\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=865"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}