The New York Times reports on a large study finding no link between stillbirth and the use of antidepressants during pregnancy. According to the Times, the Danish study of 1.6 million births, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, found that, “The neonatal death rate (before one month of life) in babies of the 29,228 mothers who had used S.S.R.I.’s did not differ from that of the population at large.”
For a review of this study about taking medication during pregnancy by the Massachusetts General Hospital Center for Women’s Mental Health, click here.
I took Wellbutrin, Amitriptyline, and Xanax while I was pregnant. The baby had an apgar score of 10 and suffered no withdrawals. It’s still an incredibly difficult and personal decision.