Antidepressant use during pregnancy linked to childhood speech impediments

‘Pregnancy can be hard for many women. But the seemingly innocuous use of antidepressant drugs during those long-haul days of morning sickness and strange food cravings could have negative developmental effects on their unborn children, even long after these little ones exit the womb.
A new study out of Columbia University, published in the journal JAMA Psychiatry, has revealed that women who take what are commonly marketed as mood-lifting pharmaceuticals while pregnant, could be sentencing their babies to a lifetime of speaking troubles, as the drugs appear to greatly increase a child’s risk of developing speech or language impediments.’
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