Over the last few weeks, there has been a lot of coverage of a story involving a new mother from Sacramento. You can read the details of the story here and here. Basically, a new [...]
Perinatal loss is a traumatic event for women and their families. While we clearly understand the potential for perinatal loss to cause significant emotional consequences, we have relatively little data on the prevalence of anxiety [...]
NPR has published an article on the use of marijuana in expectant and new mothers, interviewing several mothers belonging to a Facebook group called "Pot Smoking Moms Who Cuss Sometimes." This is an issue we [...]
The most important story of the week encompasses the first three articles. In the first, Netsi and colleagues observe that persistent depressive symptoms in the mother are associated with behavioral and academic problems in the [...]
When I meet with mothers of new babies, I often spend a fair amount of time delving into their beliefs about parenting and what they perceive as the “right” way to care for their new [...]
Analyzing data from the Swedish Medical Birth Register, the Prescribed Drug Register, and the Swedish Neonatal Quality Register, researchers compared infants exposed to ADHD medication during pregnancy with infants whose mothers never used these drugs [...]
In California, the recreational use of marijuana was legalized in 2017, but even before then, the use of marijuana has been increasing. A recent report (Young-Wolff et al, 2017) notes that in 2016, 7% of [...]
According to a report published by the CDC in Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report (MMWR), the use of stimulant medications for the treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) by reproductive-age women is on the rise. [...]
Postpartum depression (PPD) screening has been increasingly implemented not only in obstetric, but also in primary care and pediatric settings, over the past decade. While there is a growing appreciation for the prevalence of [...]
More data on the reproductive safety of ADHD medications (Norby et al 2017), a study questioning the effectiveness of doxylamine-pyridoxine for nausea and vomiting during pregnancy (Persaud et al 2018), and a study documenting the [...]
