PTSD a pregnancy risk, medicated or not

Alongside growing global diagnoses of depression, post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is on the rise, affecting around 10% of women over their lifetime and, significantly, most prevalent among women of childbearing age. Together with those who begin pregnancy already suffering from the condition is the 1-7% of women who develop PTSD after giving birth. It’s clear there’s an issue that needs addressing.…

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Long-term monitoring studies could be answer to pregnancy & medication data gaps

“The data gap around pregnant women and medication is a huge problem,” says Dr. Christina Chambers, Professor of Pediatrics at the University of California, San Diego. “Lack of sufficient data leads to treatment decisions with no evidence base, and in some cases to avoidance of needed medication or to under-treatment. This can lead to complications because there is fear on…

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Two successful pregnancies for epilepsy advocate

Roxanne Davenport from Lewisville, North Carolina, US, began having complex petit mal seizures when she was 21. She now copes with mesial temporal sclerosis, has two daughters and works as an epilepsy advocate as well as moderating the Google+ Epilepsy Support Community. Here, Roxanne shares the challenges she faced during pregnancy. During my first pregnancy, I was only on one…

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