Rats exposed to an antidepressant just before and after birth had altered behaviors and substantial brain abnormalities. The findings raise questions about how perinatal antidepressants might influence brain development in people.

The part of the brain that connects the left and right hemispheres shows abnormalities (right) in rats that received an antidepressant during a critical period around the time of birth.Source: Dr. Rick C.S. Lin, University of Mississippi Medical Center.
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Serotonin—a chemical messenger in the brain—plays an important role in brain development. Antidepressants called selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIs) work by boosting serotonin activity in the brain. However, recent studies have found associations between women taking SSRIs during pregnancy and potential development problems in their offspring, including an increased risk for autism.

A team led by Dr. Rick Lin of the University of Mississippi Medical Center, Jackson, used rats as a model to investigate the effects of SSRIs on brain development. The scientists gave citalopram, an SSRI, to male and female rat pups prenatally and postnatally and examined their brains and behavior as they grew up. The work was supported by several NIH institutes, including the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH). Results appeared online before print on October 24, 2011, in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The researchers found that long-distance connections between the 2 hemispheres of the brain showed stunted growth and degeneration. The animals also became excessively fearful when faced with new situations and failed to play normally with peers—behaviors reminiscent of autism.

The abnormalities were more pronounced in male than female rats, just as autism affects 3-4 times more boys than girls. Male, but not female, SSRI-exposed rat pups abnormally froze when they heard an unfamiliar tone and balked at exploring their environment in the presence of unfamiliar objects or scents. These behaviors persisted into adulthood. The male pups were also more likely to shun normal juvenile play behavior.

The brains of perinatally exposed animals showed evidence of neurons firing out of sync and other electrophysiological abnormalities. A key brain serotonin circuit called the raphe system showed evidence of stunted development. The raphe system is known to shape the developing brain during the critical period when the rat pups were exposed to the drug. The researchers also discovered problems in the structure responsible for communications between the brain’s left and right hemispheres, called the corpus collosum. This damage was 3 times worse in male than in female pups.

“Our findings underscore the importance of balanced serotonin levels—not too high or low—for proper brain maturation,” Lin says.

“While one must always be cautious extrapolating from medication effects in rats to medication effects in people, these new results suggest an opportunity to study the mechanisms by which antidepressants influence brain and behavioral development,” says NIMH Director Dr. Thomas R. Insel. “These studies will help to balance the mental health needs of pregnant mothers with possible increased risk to their offspring.”

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** The National Institutes of Health (NIH) , a part of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, is the nation’s medical research agency—making important discoveries that improve health and save lives. The National Institutes of Health is made up of 27 different components called Institutes and Centers. Each has its own specific research agenda. All but three of these components receive their funding directly from Congress, and administrate their own budgets.

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The finding that rates of intervention at delivery – whether high, low, or in the middle – had no bearing on the health of new babies brings into question the skyrocketing number of both inductions and cesarean deliveries in the United States.

“Like virtually all medical therapies and procedures, these interventions entail some risk for the mother, and there is no evidence in this study that they benefit the baby,” said Christopher Glantz, M.D., M.P.H., study author and professor of Maternal Fetal Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center. “In my mind, if you are getting the same outcome with high and low rates of intervention, I say ‘Do no harm’ and go with fewer interventions.”

Similar to other fields of medicine, great variation exists in obstetric practices, particularly in rates of induction of labor and cesarean delivery. A limited number of studies have examined if and how these rates are associated with improvement in the health of newborns and reported mixed results.

“More is better’ seems to be the epitome of U.S. healthcare today, with doctors and patients often choosing to do more rather than less, even when there is no evidence to support it,” noted Glantz. “But, as our study suggests, more may not always be better.”

Glantz acknowledges that the optimal rate of any medical intervention is difficult to define, and that larger studies are needed to better understand the relationship between intervention and outcome. In the meantime, he believes it’s hard to justify high rates of interventions – especially elective – in low-risk pregnant women without any known benefits to newborns, given that these interventions pose maternal risks.

In the study, Glantz focused on pregnant women delivering in level I hospitals – those lacking a Neonatal Intensive Care Unit or NICU – because they care primarily for low-risk women who do not have major complications, such as diabetes, high blood pressure or other severe disease. The majority of women in the United States deliver in level I hospitals.

Through a birth certificate database, Glantz obtained and analyzed data from 10 level I hospitals in the Finger Lakes Region of upstate New York and calculated the rates of induction and cesarean delivery at each between 2004 and 2008. Not surprisingly, the rates varied widely.

To determine the health of newborns delivered at these hospitals, he looked at three outcomes: transfer of the newborn to a hospital with a NICU (signifying the presence of complications that required a higher level of care); immediate ventilation or breathing assistance; and a low 5-minute Apgar score (a quick assessment of the overall wellbeing of a newborn).

Using statistical models, Glantz assessed the relationship between rates of induction and cesarean delivery and rates of the three neonatal outcomes. He found intervention rates had no consistent effect on newborns: Whether a hospital did a lot or very few interventions, there was no association with how sick or healthy the infants were.

Even after a second round of analysis that accounted for differences among pregnant women that could potentially impact the results, the finding was the same – hospitals with high intervention rates had newborn outcomes indistinguishable from hospitals with low rates.

According to Glantz, “If higher intervention rates were preventing negative outcomes that otherwise would have occurred, and lower intervention rates led to negative outcomes that potentially could have been avoided, the data would have revealed these relationships, but there were no such trends.”

The study included a group of approximately 28,800 women who labored (some naturally and some induced), followed by re-analysis of 29,700 women who had no history of previous cesarean section (some of whom ultimately delivered vaginally and others by cesarean section). Many women in the first group were also analyzed in the second group. Women who had had a previous cesarean delivery were excluded from the second analysis, because more than 90 percent of women with previous cesareans deliver by repeat cesarean, and these are not necessarily being done to benefit the newborns.

Glantz recognizes that some labor inductions and cesarean sections, when done for specific, established medical reasons, are necessary and lead to improved outcomes. But some interventions are elective or marginally indicated, driven by social reasons such as convenience and patient requests to deliver with “their” physician.

Labor induction is not always successful and is associated with an increased likelihood of cesarean delivery. Cesarean delivery, while common, is a major surgery and like all surgeries increases the risk of infection, bleeding, the need for additional surgeries, and results in longer recovery times.

“It is always important to try to find out when interventions will do the most good, and this study is one more log on the fire for researchers and physicians exploring these issues,” said Jennifer Bailit, M.D., M.P.H, a maternal fetal medicine expert at the MetroHealth Medical Center in Cleveland who conducts similar research. “Understanding when and how an intervention can best improve outcomes is important to physicians and patients.”

The study was funded by the University of Rochester Medical Center and the New York State Department of Health. A major strength of the study is its large size, while limitations include the inability to assess and control for all possible factors influencing interventions – a constraint of database research.

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A simple behavioral intervention that provided pregnant women with advice and feedback about weight control helped normal-weight women control their weight gain during pregnancy, according to the newly published “Fit for Delivery” study. It also helped normal-weight and obese and overweight women return to pre-pregnancy weight after delivery.

Goal: to help pregnant women manage weight gain “Our study succeeded for normal weight women,” said study co-author Rena Wing, “but we need to develop a more effective approach for women who are overweight or obese.” Credit: Peter Goldberg

 PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Excessive weight gain isn’t healthy at any stage of life, but during pregnancy it can do lasting harm to the mother and baby alike. Now researchers at Brown University and The Miriam Hospital are encouraged by a new study describing an intervention that helped pregnant women control their weight.

“This study suggests that a lifestyle intervention can help women manage their weight during pregnancy, prevent health problems during pregnancy, and reduce weight retention after having a baby,” said study lead author Suzanne Phelan, adjunct assistant professor of psychiatry and human behavior at Brown and an associate professor of kinesiology at California Polytechnic State University.

Women whose weight was in a normal range before pregnancy were more likely to stay at a healthy weight if they received the intervention during pregnancy compared to women who received standard care, according to the randomized controlled study of 400 women, published online this month in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition. The intervention also increased the chance of returning to their pre-pregnancy weight six months after delivery. The intervention did not help women who were obese or overweight before becoming pregnant to stay within the recommended weight gain goals during pregnancy, but it did help them return to their pre-pregnancy weight after delivery.

“I think it’s an important study,” said co-author Rena Wing, professor of psychiatry and human behavior at the Warren Alpert Medical School of Brown University and The Miriam Hospital. “The goal during pregnancy is to help women gain within the recommended amounts. Our study succeeded for normal weight women, but we need to develop a more effective approach for women who are overweight or obese.”

The Institute of Medicine’s latest guidelines recommend, for example, that normal-weight women gain between 25 and 35 pounds and that obese women gain 11 to 20 pounds. Otherwise, the health consequences for expectant mothers and their babies could be serious, said study co-author Maureen Phipps, interim chair of obstetrics and gynecology at the Alpert Medical School and Women & Infants Hospital.

“Excess weight gain during pregnancy increases the risk for developing gestational diabetes and problems with high blood pressure during pregnancy,” Phipps said. “Obesity is associated with an increased risk for cesarean delivery, fetal growth problems, and premature birth. In addition to adding to the difficulty of losing weight post partum, excess weight gain during pregnancy can have long-term health consequences for both the mother and the infant.”

Fit for delivery

The team devised an intervention that they hoped would be effective, but also “low-intensity” so that clinicians and patients could stick with it. Patients randomly selected to receive the intervention went to an initial, face-to-face meeting with an interventionist who coached them on topics such as what constitutes healthy pregnancy weight gain, the need for physical activity such as walking, calorie goals, reducing fat intake and daily self-monitoring. Women received scales, pedometers and forms for recording what they ate.

From there, the intervention proceeded exclusively via the mail and by phone with weekly reminder postcards and three calls from a dietitian to offer encouragement. After each visit to their doctor’s office, the women would also receive graphs showing them their weight gain compared to what would be ideal based on health guidelines. Women who were gaining too much or too little received additional follow-up coaching calls from the study dietitian.

Among normal-weight women who received the intervention, 40.2 percent gained more than the IOM recommendations, but among comparable women who did not receive the intervention, 52.1 percent gained too much. Six months after delivery, 35.6 percent of women who received the intervention were at or below their pre-pregnancy weight, compared to only 20.7 percent who received only standard care.

Obese or overweight women struggled more to control their weight during pregnancy. Exactly two thirds — 66.7 percent — of obese or overweight women who received the intervention and 61.1 percent of those who did not gained more than the 1990 IOM recommendation (the study took place before the newest guidelines for obese women). That difference between those who received the intervention and those who did not, Wing said, was not statistically significant. But after birth, obese or overweight women did gain a statistically significant benefit from the intervention: 25.6 percent of those in the intervention group returned to their pre-pregnancy weight or below, compared to only 16.7 percent of women who received standard care.

“What might have happened is that obese and overweight women learned skills during the pregnancy that they had difficulty implementing at that time,” Wing said. “After the pregnancy they were able to implement these skills more effectively and so got back to their pre-pregnancy weights.”

Normal-weight women may have also benefitted medically from the intervention. Women in the intervention group were nearly four times less likely to experience high blood pressure and three times less likely to have preeclampsia, but Wing cautioned that the absolute numbers of women showing symptoms in either group — fewer than a dozen — was very small, making the results difficult to interpret.

Future directions

Wing’s research group will now look at how the intervention might be tweaked to be more helpful for obese women while they are still pregnant.

Phelan, meanwhile, said she is interested in getting the intervention into the hands of doctors.

“One of the next steps is to implement the intervention as part of standard care,” she said. “We designed the intervention with dissemination in mind, and so another study will test its effects as part of clinical practice.”

In addition to Wing, Phelan and Phipps, other authors on the study include Barbara Abrams, Francine Darroch, Andrew Schaffner. The National Institutes of Health funded the study.

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Eva Pressman, M.D.

February 11, 2011

Extremely obese women may not need to gain as much weight during pregnancy as current guidelines suggest, according to a new study presented today at the Society for Maternal-Fetal Medicine annual meeting.

Severely obese women who gained less than the recommended amount of weight during the second and third trimester of pregnancy suffered no ill effects, nor did their babies. In contrast, obese and non-obese women who gained less weight in the second and third trimester had undesirable outcomes, including a higher likelihood of delivering a baby that is small for gestational age – smaller than the usual weight for the number of weeks of pregnancy. 

“The study suggests that even the recommended amounts of weight gain might be more than is needed for the most obese women,” said Eva Pressman, M.D., director of Maternal Fetal Medicine at the University of Rochester Medical Center.

In 2009, the Institute of Medicine released new guidelines for how much weight a woman should gain during pregnancy, taking into account changes in the population, particularly the increase in the number of women of childbearing age who are overweight and obese.

“At some point, there may be even more tailored guidelines than what exists right now for women with different levels of obesity,” said Danielle Durie, M.D., M.P.H, lead study author from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology at the Medical Center.

The study sought to determine the impact of weight gain outside recommended ranges during the second and third trimester of pregnancy on women and their babies. Women were grouped according to pre-pregnancy body mass index (BMI) as underweight, normal weight, overweight, and obese classes I, II, and III. Obese classes II and III include women considered severely and morbidly obese. 

Gaining less weight than recommended in the second and third trimester was associated with increased likelihood of having a baby that is small for gestational age in all BMI groups except obese class II and III. Gaining more weight than recommended in the second and third trimester was associated with increased likelihood of having a baby that is large for gestational age in all BMI groups.

Newborns that are very large or very small may experience problems during delivery and afterwards. Small babies may have decreased oxygen levels, low blood sugar and difficulty maintaining a normal body temperature. Large babies often make delivery more difficult and may result in the need for a cesarean delivery, which increases the risk of infection, respiratory complications, the need for additional surgeries and results in longer recovery times for the mother.

In addition to weight gain rates outside the recommended ranges, increasing BMI alone was associated with negative outcomes for mothers and newborns as well. For all BMI groups above normal weight, the likelihood of cesarean delivery, induction of labor and gestational diabetes increased.

The study included 73,977 women who gave birth to a single child in the Finger Lakes Region of New York between January 2004 and December 2008. Of the study participants, 4 percent were underweight, 48 percent normal weight, 24 percent overweight and 24 percent obese (13 percent class I, 6 percent class II and 5 percent class III).

Researchers from Rochester also reported that overweight and obese women undergoing labor induction may benefit from higher doses of oxytocin, a medication used to induce labor by causing contractions. They tested the effectiveness of two oxytocin protocols – one including a lower dose every 45 minutes and another using a slightly higher dose every half hour – in women based on BMI.

Overweight and obese women administered the lower, less frequent dose were less likely to deliver vaginally – the preferred method of delivery – than overweight and obese women administered the higher, more frequent dose.

“If you give more oxytocin to overweight and obese patients they may be more likely to delivery vaginally, which is what we want, as opposed to having a cesarean section, which can introduce more complications,” according to Pressman, an author of the study. “The study is important because the effect of BMI on induction has not been well described before.”

The oxytocin protocols tested in the study are relatively standard and were used to induce labor in nearly 500 women who delivered at the University of Rochester Medical Center between October 2007 and September 2008. Study participants were induced for a variety of reasons, including going a week or more past the estimated due date, when there is no longer any benefit to the fetus from remaining inside the womb.

In addition to Pressman and Durie, David Hackney, M.D., and Nigel Campbell, M.D., also participated in the oxytocin research. Christopher Glantz, M.D., M.P.H, and Loralei Thornburg, M.D., contributed to the research on weight gain during the second and third trimester of pregnancy. Both studies were funded by the University of Rochester Medical Center.

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Can drinking while pregnant hurt my baby?

If you drink when you’re pregnant, your baby drinks too. Alcohol passes right from your body to your baby’s body. The alcohol can hurt your baby even before you feel its effects. And it stays in your baby longer than in you.

Alcohol can damage a growing baby’s brain, organs and body. This damage can affect how your baby thinks, acts, looks and learns as a child and as an adult.

What drinks can hurt?

Any drink with alcohol can hurt your baby. Too many people think only “hard liquor” like rum, vodka, or whiskey can hurt your baby. They’re wrong! Any drink with alcohol in it can hurt your baby. Coolers, cider, wine, beer liqueurs all have the same kind of alcohol as “hard liquor”.

Cooking wine, mouthwash, cleaning products, and other liquids also have alcohol in them but were never meant to drink. And, if you drink them, they can hurt your baby too.

How many drinks will hurt?

Alcohol hurts a baby most when it is growing. Your baby grows inside you the whole time you are pregnant, so drinking at any time could hurt your baby. No one has found an amount of alcohol that is safe to drink when you are pregnant. Of course, the risk of damage increases the more you drink. So your safest choice is not to drink at all.

Does it matter when I drink?

• Heavy alcohol exposure during the period of craniofacial development will affect facial features. This roughly corresponds to the third and fourth weeks of human pregnancy.
• The structure of the kidneys is most vulnerable around the sixth week of pregnancy.
• Skeletal malformations can occur during weeks 3 to 8, such as incomplete growth of forelimbs and defects of the digits.
• Heart defects can occur from alcohol exposure as early as weeks 3 to 4.

Vulnerability of the Fetus to Defects During Different Periods of Development

What is FAS, and other effects of drinking while pregnant?

FAS stands for Fetal Alcohol Syndrome. Doctors give this name to a specific group of serious problems a child has when a mother drank heavily while pregnant.

What happens to children born with Fetal Alcohol Syndrome?

Their brain is permanently damaged, so they have trouble following simple instructions or remembering things.

• They’re small and don’t grow normally.
• Their faces may look different, such as small eyes and thin lips.
• They’re often colicky babies and hyperactive children.
• They might have trouble seeing, hearing or speaking.
• They might have heart or kidney trouble.

When the children get older:

• They often have trouble controlling how they act and get along with other people.
• They have trouble paying attention and learning at school.
• They struggle with depression and may have drug and alcohol problems.
• They have trouble holding a job.
• They often get into trouble with the law.

Will these problems go away?

No. They will last the child’s whole life.

But I drank last time I was pregnant, and my baby was fine

Alcohol damage doesn’t always show up before the child goes to school. And every pregnancy and every baby is different. Alcohol can hurt one baby more than another. It’s a fact that if you drink when you are pregnant you risk of causing seriousdamage to your baby.

What can I do?

To be completely safe, never drink when you’re pregnant or planning to get pregnant.

Ask your friends and family to not serve you alcohol while you are pregnant. If you need help not to drink, make sure you ask. Your friends and family can help you quit drinking, or ask at your nearest health or treatment centre.

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Why do so Many Women Fail to get Pregnant?

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Pregnancy Dos

• See your doctor regularly. Prenatal care can help keep you and your baby healthy and spot problems if they occur.
• Continue taking folic acid throughout your pregnancy. All women capable of pregnancy should get 400 to 800 micrograms of folic acid every day. Getting enough folic acid lowers the risk of some birth defects. Taking a vitamin with folic acid will help you to be sure you are getting enough.
• Eat a variety of healthy foods. Include fruits, vegetables, whole grains, calcium-rich foods, and lean meats.
• Get all essential nutrients, including iron, every day. Getting enough iron prevents anemia, which is linked to preterm birth and low-birth weight babies. Ask your doctor about taking a daily prenatal vitamin or iron supplement.
• Drink extra fluids, especially water.
• Get moving! Unless your doctor tells you otherwise, physical activity is good for you and your baby.
• Gain a healthy amount of weight. Gaining more than the recommended amount during pregnancy increases a woman’s risk for pregnancy complications. It also makes it harder to lose the extra pounds after childbirth. Check with your doctor to find out how much weight you should gain during pregnancy.
• Wash hands, especially after handling raw meat or using the bathroom.
• Get enough sleep. Aim for 7 to 9 hours every night. Resting on your left side helps blood flow to you and your baby and prevents swelling. Using pillows between your legs and under your belly will help you get comfortable.
• Set limits. If you can, control the stress in your life and set limits. Don’t be afraid to say NO to requests for your time and energy. Ask for help from others.
• Make sure health problems are treated and kept under control. If you have diabetes, control your blood sugar levels. If you have high blood pressure, monitor it closely.
• Ask your doctor before stopping any medicines you take or taking any new medicines. Prescription, over-the-counter, and herbal medicine all can harm your baby.
• Get a flu shot if your baby’s due date is between March and July. Pregnant women can get very sick from the flu and may need hospital care. Ask your doctor about the flu vaccine.
• Always wear a seatbelt. The lap strap should go under your belly, across your hips. The shoulder strap should go between your breasts and to the side of your belly. Make sure it fits snuggly.
• Join a childbirth or parenting class.
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Steer clear of these pregnancy no-nos to help keep you and your baby safe and healthy.

Pregnancy Don’ts

• Don’t smoke tobacco. Quitting is hard, but you can do it! Ask your doctor for help. Smoking during pregnancy passes nicotine and cancer-causing drugs to your baby. Smoking also keeps your baby from getting needed nourishment and raises the risk of miscarriage, preterm birth, and infant death.
• Avoid exposure to toxic substances and chemicals, such as cleaning solvents, lead and mercury, some insecticides, and paint. Pregnant women should avoid exposure to paint fumes.
• Protect yourself and your baby from food-borne illness, which can cause serious health problems and even death. Handle, clean, cook, eat, and store food properly.
• Don’t drink alcohol. There is no known safe amount of alcohol a woman can drink while pregnant. Both drinking every day and drinking a lot of alcohol once in a while during pregnancy can harm the baby.
• Don’t use illegal drugs. Tell your doctor if you are using drugs. Marijuana, cocaine, heroin, speed (amphetamines), barbiturates, and LSD are very dangerous for you and your baby.
• Don’t clean or change a cat’s litter box. This could put you at risk for toxoplasmosis, an infection that can be very harmful to the fetus.
• Don’t eat fish with lots of mercury, including swordfish, king mackerel, shark, and tilefish.
• Avoid contact with rodents and with their urine, droppings, or nesting material. This includes household pests and pet rodents, such as guinea pigs and hamsters. Rodents can carry a virus that can be harmful or even deadly to your unborn baby.
• Don’t take very hot baths or use hot tubs or saunas. High temperatures can be harmful to the fetus, or cause you to faint.
• Don’t use scented feminine hygiene products. Pregnant women should avoid scented sprays, sanitary napkins, and bubble bath. These products might irritate your vaginal area, and increase your risk of a urinary tract infection or yeast infection.
• Don’t douche. Douching can irritate the vagina, force air into the birth canal and increase the increase the risk of infection.
• Avoid x-rays. If you must have dental work or diagnostic tests, tell your dentist or physician that you are pregnant so that extra care can be taken.

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Getting early and regular prenatal care is one of the best ways to promote a healthy pregnancy. Prenatal care is more than just health care; it often includes education and counseling about how to handle different aspects of pregnancy, such as nutrition and physical activity, what to expect from the birth itself, and basic skills for caring for your infant.

Prenatal visits also give you and your family a chance to talk to your health care provider about any questions or concerns you have related to your pregnancy, birth, or parenthood.

Many health care providers recommend that a woman who is only thinking about getting pregnant see a health care provider about preconception health. There are steps she can take to reduce the risk of certain problems.

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