The following is from an article in the UCLA news online. You can go to the
UCLA home page, April 22, 20003, & click on <A HREF="http://newsroom.ucla.edu/page.asp?id=4062">Maternal Depression Slows Nursing
Infant Growth</A> to read the complete piece.

http://www.ucla.edu/


UCLA Study Suggests Maternal Depression, Not Antidepressant Use, Lowers
Nursing Infant Weight Gain

A new UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute study suggests that maternal
depression, not antidepressant use, affects infant weight gain in the first
six months after birth. The study is the first to compare the impact of
maternal depression vs. antidepressant use on the physical development of
nursing infants.

Published in the April edition of the peer-reviewed Journal of Clinical
Psychiatry, the study found that exposure to antidepressant medication
through breast milk had no effect on infant weight gain compared with
national norms calculated by the Centers for Disease Control (CDC).

Laura Hart
Winter Park, FL








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