It’s true that if antidepressants are taken during pregnancy, they have direct effect on fetus but the fact that we generally ignore and are not aware of is that depression during Pregnancy affects the baby as well.
Study done by American Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry shows:
Babies born to women with untreated major depressive disorder had significant changes in neurobehavioral function, were born at an earlier gestational age, and had elevated stress hormones...
The conclusion of the study shows that infants of high risk women will have:
· Poorer quality of movement (-0.36 versus -0.26 low risk, P=0.07)
· More hypotonia (0.49 versus -0.22 low risk, P>0.01)
· Higher stress scores (0.56 versus 0.13 low risk, P>0.003).
VIA- medpagetoday
