Moms & Meds: Navigating Pregnancy and Psychiatric Medication

Moms & Meds: Navigating Pregnancy and Psychiatric Medication

2016 | 53 minutes |

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Director: Dina Fiasconaro

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Dina Fiasconaro who has anxiety rolled the dice when she decided to have a baby. It's a catch-22 situation as her anxiety medicines can harm her unborn baby but so can her mental illness, which is likely to worsen without medication. With no data on this issue and doctors having conflicted opinions, Dina and women like her walk a lonely path struggling with mental illness for the sake of motherhood.

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