Some doctors’ reluctance to continue to prescribe antidepressants to women when they become pregnant is putting new mothers at risk of mental health problems, experts warn.
Their caution is linked to fears that the medications – taken by about six million people in the UK, and one in ten women – increase the risk of heart defects, autism and serious lung conditions in unborn children.
Studies have also linked some of the pills to severe postnatal bleeding in women, low