Complacency in Pregnancy

The risk of birth defects increases four-fold if the pregnant mother has diabetes, a study of 400,000 pregnancies in England suggests up to 2011.

If only the title of this blog were a true indication of how I am feeling about the latest developments in Matthew’s case and with psychotropic medication prescribing in general.

Completed Pregnancy:
Experts in the fields of neo-natology and drug exposure during pregnancy have been advocating for over a decade that babies exposed to SSRI’s and SNRI’s must be monitored for adverse events at birth.

Even the drug company shill Gideon Koren at the Motherisk Program in Toronto has gone on record as far back as 2008 saying that we should at least be monitoring babies exposed to antidepressant drugs.

So, the position statement being issued by the Canadian Pediatric Society is best summed up in the words of our good friend and ally Barbara Mintzes from the Therapeutics Initiative at the University of British Columbia.

The optimal age for first pregnancy
The optimal age for first pregnancy, doctors consider the period from 21 to 26 years. By this time it is completed during puberty, hormones stabilized, the body is young, tissue ligaments and joints flexible, which facilitates the normal course of pregnancy and childbirth. However, in most developed countries, age of the women waiting for the first-born has increased.

Previously, the desire to become a mother arose in women of 20-23 years. Women of the XXI century are psychologically prepared for motherhood in the 27-30 years old, and sometimes later. And the thing that has changed the role of women in society. Before the birth of a child she wanted to have time to get one or more of higher education, to make a career change a few sexual partners, and only then decide on motherhood. The level of modern medicine allows a woman to give birth and 30, and 40 and even 50 years.

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