Continuing medical education: SSRIs and pregnancy.

These include an increased risk of maternal mortality,[ 2 ] poor weight gain, alcohol or illicit drug use, toxemias of pregnancy, and poor mother-child bonding[ 3 , 4 ] and an increased risk of pre-term delivery, low birth weight, operative delivery, and neonatal ICU admission.[ 5 – 7 ] There is now an increasing trend to prescribe selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) to treat depression during pregnancy; in fact, SSRIs are now first-line antidepressants during pregnancy in Denmark and many other European countries.[ 8 , 9 ] The epidemiology of SSRI and antidepressant use during pregnancy has been desc

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