Infants Exposed to Antidepressants

Psychiatric News reports that pregnant woman can pass antidepressants to their unborn babies through amniotic fluid. As a result, some infants have experienced jitteriness, sleeping or eating problems. There was also a rise in cardiac malformation.

According to Ada Loughhead, of the Emory University School of Medicine, "Fetal development occurs in a continuous environment of pharmacologically active drug molecules when mothers are treated with these medications."

[From Psychiatry News, February 3, 2006,Volume 41, Number 3, page 25, American Psychiatric Association]