Antipsychotic medications while pregnant?

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Does anyone have experience with APs while pregnant?

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Preventing Schizophrenia

Preventing Schizophrenia and Lowering Risks - Schizophrenia.com

How Stress during Pregnancy Increases Risk for Schizophrenia & Autism

When a woman experiences a stressful event early in pregnancy, the risk of her child developing autism spectrum disorders or schizophrenia increases. Yet how maternal stress is transmitted to the brain of the developing fetus, leading to these problems in neurodevelopment, is poorly understood. New findings by University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine scientists suggest that an enzyme found in the placenta is likely playing an important role. This enzyme, O-linked-N-acetylglucosamine transferase, or OGT, translates maternal stress into a reprogramming signal for the brain before birth. “By manipulating this one gene, we were able to recapitulate many aspects of early prenata…

Flu During Pregnancy Increases Risk of Psychosis in Children - MetaAnalysis

Psychotic disorders are complex and caused by interplay of genetic and environmental factors. Influenza (the flu) is a common infectious disease in humans, and it has been suggested that maternal influenza is an estimated risk factor for psychotic disorders, especially for schizophrenia. … results showed that gestational influenza could increase mental disorders risks in adult offspring besides its established harms for gravidas (during pregnancy). Results suggest it might be effective to increase attention to gravidas (women during pregnancy) to protect them from influenza infection through encouragement of vaccinations. Important Note: It has been suggested by researchers that its im…

Pregnancy and Medication: Effects of Clozapine and other Atypical Antipsychotics on Infants Development Who Were Exposed to as Fetus

It sounds like doctors and patients need to weigh the risks of changing medications with the possibly greater negative impacts of Clozapine on the baby. Conclusion These results suggest that clozapine has more behavioral effects (i.e. more negative effects) on infants who were exposed to as a fetus than other atypical antipsychotics at 2 and 6 months of age. Full Article available here:

Women with schizophrenia at higher risk of pregnancy and delivery complications: Study

TORONTO, February 3, 2014 – Women with schizophrenia are nearly twice as likely to experience pre-eclampsia, pre-term birth and other serious pregnancy and delivery complications as women without the condition, a landmark study by researchers at the Institute for Clinical Evaluative Sciences (ICES) and Women’s College Hospital has found. The first-of-its-kind study, published today in the British Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, is the first to report high birth weights, and increased rates of hypertension and thromboembolic disease in pregnant women with schizophrenia. “Traditionally, women with schizophrenia have had low fertility rates, and little attention was paid to their reprod…

The characteristics and health needs of pregnant women with schizophrenia compared with bipolar disorder and affective psychoses

Background: Most women with psychotic disorders and bipolar disorders have children but their pregnancies are at risk of adverse psychiatric and fetal outcome. The extent of modifiable risk factors – both clinical and socio-demographic – is unclear as most studies have used administrative data or recruited from specialist tertiary referral clinics. We therefore aimed to investigate the socio-demographic and clinical characteristics of an epidemiologically representative cohort of pregnant women with affective and non-affective severe mental illness. Methods Women with severe mental illness were identified from a large electronic mental health case register in south London, and a data link…