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Clinicians face an increasingly complex task when advising depressed patients who are or wish to become pregnant. Antidepressant treatment has been linked to a wide range of adverse effects in neonates. However, untreated depression during pregnancy has been associated with poor prenatal care, poor pregnancy outcomes, and postpartum depression; women with recurrent disease who discontinue antidepressants in pregnancy can relapse. In 2008, several studies focused on depression and its treatment during pregnancy and postpartum.
In a prospective, population-based study of 791 pregnant women who were interviewed about depressive symptoms early in pregnancy (mean, 10 weeks’ gestation), depressive symptoms were significant in 41%…