Monday, August 6, 2012

Not Just the Pregnancy Blues

Around this time, my psychologist brought up the possibility of my going back on antidepressants, but before those three shaky, sleepless days during Week 9, I was resistant. I'm not sure why. I have worked in women?s media for five years, and really thought I was inured to all the ?natural? pregnancy hype. I don?t want to have a baby in a bathtub or eat my own placenta. I fully intend to get an epidural. But even though I knew lots of women who had healthy babies while on Prozac and Zoloft, and I knew that many, many studies showed only a minuscule chance of those drugs affecting my fetus, I didn?t want to go back on. I suppose on some primal level I wanted to be pure while pregnant. If anything went wrong with the baby, I would always wonder if my being on antidepressants was to blame. This was not a science-based decision. But when it comes to pregnancy, particularly your first pregnancy, it?s tough to ignore your emotional brain.

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