The FDA has finally ordered the first test ever done on the effect of drugs on mothers and their babies during and following births. This is a seven year study that will mostly validate what women who have lost babies and had babies born with heart defects already know – that all drugs taken during pregnancy pose a risk to the mother and the baby and it’s been a well known fact for years that psychiatric drugs do cause birth defects and deaths.
Although this study comes too late for many unborn babies and those who have been through heart surgeries and other birth defects known for years to be caused especially by psychiatric drugs, this is a beginning. The greatest challenge in this study is that they have never done a single study to determine the effect that psychiatric drugs have on the mothers’ or babies’ brains and how this could lead to a drug dependency dependency and neurological damage for the babies.
It’s a bit shocking to hear so many pregnant women are taking drugs during pregnancy. We can thank those psychologists and psychiatrists who have made women feel falsely safe about taking psychiatric drug during pregnancy.
This should be a wake up call for those psychologists and psychiatrists and bloggers who write books and posts that promote the use of psychiatric drugs during pregnancy when there has never been a study done.
http://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/Newsroom/PressAnnouncements/ucm195934.htm
