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Prescription medications and breastfeeding
Breastfeeding mothers can safely use most prescribed medications. Natural barriers in the cells that create breast milk make it difficult for most medications to pass into your milk. Even for those medications that do enter breast milk, most do so in amounts so low that there is no effect on the baby. Before your doctor […] Read more
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Antidepressants and Birth Defects
In this study a large number of pregnant women who took antidepressants during pregnancy were carefully looked at. There was an increase in birth defects from Paroxetine ingestion in early pregnancy. There was no increase in risk with SSRI antidepressants such as Sertraline. Women should consult their doctor before planning a pregnancy and to ensure […] Read more