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Encircle Parents and Babies in Health. MotherToBaby's overarching goal is to enable informed decision making by effectively communicating evidence-based information about the effects of exposures during pregnancy or while breastfeeding, leading to a reduction in preventable birth defects and other adverse outcomes. As the environment, medications, and health landscape is constantly changing, requests are on the rise. How can we continue to provide our services free of cost? We …
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Baby Blog: Balancing Act: The Importance of Medication Dose in Pregnancy
By: Kirstie Perrotta, MPH and Becky Spencer, PhD, APRN, PMHNP-BC, IBCLC, PMH-C, FILCA Shannon was newly pregnant and had been referred to MotherToBaby by her doctor. She was taking 50 mg of sertraline per day for general anxiety and her doctor thought that she may need to wean off the medication now that she was 5 weeks pregnant. Shannon had been taking the medication for 3 years and was feeling great on her current dose, so she had some concerns about this plan. On the MotherToBaby website’s …