{"id":205,"date":"2005-08-05T18:01:00","date_gmt":"2005-08-06T00:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/?p=205"},"modified":"2005-08-05T18:01:00","modified_gmt":"2005-08-06T00:01:00","slug":"treating-depression-during-pregnancy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/2005\/08\/05\/treating-depression-during-pregnancy\/","title":{"rendered":"Treating Depression During Pregnancy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Depression affects up to 15% of women during and shortly after pregnancy. Dr Janet Atsumi Martin, from the Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles, stated that the impact of depression during pregnancy includes:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Poorer maternal self-care and nutrition<\/li>\n<li>Decreased birth weight<\/li>\n<li>Increased use of tobacco, alcohol and drugs<\/li>\n<li>Increased risk to fetus<\/li>\n<li>Increased stress hormones<\/li>\n<li>Increased risk of pre-term delivery<\/li>\n<li>Increased risk of postpartum depression<\/li>\n<li>Impairs care of and bonding with infant<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Unfortunately, Dr. Martin also pointed out that there are also dangers of treating depression during pregnancy. For mothers who must get chemical treatment during pregnancy, she suggested the following.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Start low and go slow with these medications by using a minimal effective dose because they have effects on the mother (example, potential side effects of increased anxiety, nausea and insomnia) and also effects on pre-term labor (that is, increased pre-term labor).&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailyexpress.com.my\/news.cfm?NewsID=36241\">Full Story<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Depression affects up to 15% of women during and shortly after pregnancy. Dr Janet Atsumi Martin, from the Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre in Los Angeles, stated that the impact of depression during pregnancy includes: Poorer&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pregnancy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.familyresource.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}