In psychiatrists’ offices, all around the world, women are being presented with something of Sophie’s Choice—let your mental illness go untreated, or play with the risks (known and unknown) of medication exposure in pregnancy.
One in four women of reproductive age is psychiatrically medicated in this country with approximately 6 percent to 15 percent of women prescribed antidepressants during pregnancy. Studying the safety of medication exposures around conception, pregnancy, birth, and breastfeeding is a notorious blindspot of allopathic care.
