Managing Your Mental Health with Medication During Pregnancy & Postpartum with Dr. Francie Broghammer
Release Date: 01/14/2021
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And if yes, which ones are safe?
If I’m taking medication for my mental health before I get pregnant do I have to stop?
Did you ask any of these types questions during your pregnancy or postpartum journey?
I know I did.
I wrote my OB about pretty much everything from TUMS to Tylenol.
Today on the What Nik Knows Podcast, Dr. Francie Broghammer, Chief Resident in Psychiatry at UC Irvine Medical Center, walks us through managing our mental health with medication during pregnancy and postpartum.
Here’s what you’ll hear on today’s EP:
- Female mental health is different than male mental health due to our hormone fluctuation throughout our lifetime
- Women are 2x more likely to experience depression than men
- 90% of women have the baby blues after birth
- If you’ve experienced anxiety/depression prior to pregnancy there is a higher than average chance that will represent itself in pregnancy & postpartum
- Strength alone does not allow you to heal your brain any better than healing the broken bone in your arm
- How SSRI medications work
- How taking medication can help you do the things that actually encourage self care, exercise…all the things that take you from baseline to flourishing
- Breastfeeding and medication
And so much more!
I have 5 seats left in the upcoming Strengthening Your Motherhood Mindset workshop- it is on January 27th at 4pm. Reserve your seat now!