By Lorrie Harris-Sagaribay, MPH, Teratogen Information Specialist and Coordinator, MotherToBaby North Carolina Back in the early 1970s, pregnant women and their health care providers didn’t talk about alcohol and drugs in pregnancy. Birth defects caused by alcohol? Unheard of! Then, along came two pediatric specialists at the University of Washington who changed everything: Drs. David W. Smith and Kenneth Lyons Jones noticed that a group of babies who had been exposed to high amounts of …
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Baby Blog: When Addiction Recovery Meets Pregnancy: Finding a Balance for Mom and Baby
“This is my first child, and I don’t know what to do!” exclaimed Lyndsay, a newly pregnant woman when I answered MotherToBaby’s free and confidential helpline. Lyndsay explained that she is taking several medications and was concerned about their potential effects on her unborn baby. She is currently very new to recovery from cocaine and opioid use disorder. She is taking buprenorphine and naloxone for the opioid use disorder, along with baclofen and n-acetylcysteine (NAC) for cocaine …
Baby Blog: Dear Opioid-Addicted Moms-To-Be, We Are Here for You
By Dr. Sarah Običan, OBGYN, MotherToBaby Florida I feel really lucky. I have had the pleasure and privilege to live and work in some great cities and universities as an OBGYN. I spent my formidable residency years in Washington, DC and loved the diversity of my patients. Being that I was located in the heart of our nation’s capital, in one room I would deliver a princess of some far off nation, in the next, it’d be a dignitary from “the Hill.” But it wasn’t always rosy. Working in such a busy …
Baby Blog: The Headache of Dealing with a Migraine during Pregnancy
“I can’t get rid of it fast enough!” Caroline was 5 months pregnant and at her wits end when she contacted MotherToBaby. “My migraine is so bad that I can barely get out of bed, but I feel like there’s nothing I can do about it since I’m pregnant. I don’t want to harm the baby!” We often get questions like Caroline’s from women planning a pregnancy or already pregnant who would like information on the prevention and treatment of migraine headaches, so I start by asking Caroline what she would …
Press Release: Zika Virus and Pregnancy Answers
by the MotherToBaby Public Affairs Committee UPDATED STATEMENT AS OF FEBRUARY 4, 2016 MotherToBaby Experts Offer Evidence-Based Information about Zika Virus during Pregnancy On February 1, 2016 the World Health Organization (WHO) declared “A Global Public Health Emergency” over the Zika virus, due to its suspected ability to cause microcephaly in unborn babies (1). The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) “developed interim guidelines for healthcare providers in the United States …
