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...years ago, Jamie Nesi, a case manager for special-ed children in Bellport, N.Y., received a diagnosis of mild depression. Her doctor prescribed a low dose of Prozac, which eased her symptoms. In 2005, Nesi, then 33, got pregnant, and at her gynecologist's recommendation, she discontinued the medication. For the first two trimesters, things went smoothly. "It was my first child, and everyone said I was having a perfect pregnancy," said Nesi in a phone interview...
Nesi's case is not unique. Psychologists say that many women who experience postpartum depression have had depressive symptoms during pregnancy or even earlier. A 2007 study by the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention found that of 4,400 pregnant women, 457 were depressed postpartum, and nearly half of those women had developed depression previously, either during pregnancy or in the nine months before they got pregnant...
...Child Development, researchers found that children born to women who were depressed during pregnancy were four times as likely to be arrested for violent crimes by age 16 as children of nondepressed mothers. The study involved 120 randomly chosen women from South London, who were interviewed when they were pregnant and after they gave birth. Researchers also interviewed the participants' children when they were 4, 11 and 16 years old. Further, the authors accounted for other stresses in the mother's life that could contribute to a child's antisocial or violent behavior - such as smoking, alcohol use, relationship problems...
...vast majority of federally approved drugs, including antidepressants, during pregnancy. Of the dozen or so prescription medications specifically approved for expectant women by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, all are pregnancy-related: drugs for inducing labor, for instance, or epidural anesthesia. That means that each year, thousands of pregnant women with common illnesses - from depression to flu or cancer - must decide whether the benefit of medications outweighs the unknown risks to their fetus...
...Touch Institute in Miami, massage therapist and psychologist Tiffany Field has been helping pregnant women by training their husbands and significant others to give them restorative massages. In a 2008 study involving 200 depressed pregnant women, Field found that women who received a 20-minute back massage twice a week had lower levels of stress hormones and depressive thoughts than women who did not get the massages. The incidence of premature birth and low birth weight in infants was also lower in the massage group than in the control group...