ADHD symptoms can impair work and home life so severely that women are increasingly electing to continue taking their medications during pregnancy.
In perinatal psychiatry, clinicians meet with women and their families as they plan for pregnancy and review the risks associated with continuing and discontinuing their ADHD treatment throughout pregnancy.Many of the largest studies on the reproductive safety of stimulant medications are reassuring, finding no increased risks for adverse outcomes like congenital malformations, perinatal death, and obstetric complications.
More recent studies have suggested a potential association between the use of methylphenidate and cardiac malformations, particularly ventral septal defects (a hole in the heart).
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