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I have to say I took Paxil with my second child..she is " normal " . I didn't

take anything with my first and he's the one with issues.

I was already on Paxil when I got pregnant with #2, and the dr. said it

would be worse if taken off of Paxil. It would upset my system, thus the baby.

Guess he was right.

So I don't really believe that this causes " Autism " . As with any drug,

everybody is different in how they react to it. If there is a history of PPD,

then yes, the dr. will more than likely keep you on your meds.

Oh I didn't have PPD with either child.

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(NaturalNews) A new law being considered in the U.S. Congress would

attempt to prevent postpartum depression in new moms by drugging them

with SSRI antidepressant drugs while they're still pregnant. This

legislation is being aggressively pushed by pro-pharma front groups

in an effort to expand the customer base for SSRI drugs by targeting

pregnant women as new " customers " for the chemicals. It's an example

of the latest insanity from Big Pharma, whose drugs are already

killing over 100,000 Americans each year while inciting violence and

suicides in teens. Every single shooting massacre we've seen in the

last ten years has been carried out by a person taking SSRI

antidepressant drugs. The mainstream media pays no attention to this

link, and the FDA ignores the reports in order to keep these drugs on

the market.

SSRI drugs have never been approved for use on newborns, yet this new

MOTHERS Act will effectively drug unborn babies and newborns with

drugs like Prozac. This will certainly have an impact on their

developing brains, and the bulk of the research available today shows

that the impact will be negative. Will these children be more prone

to violent thoughts and behavior? Will they contemplate suicide at

younger ages? And what will be the impact of the drugs on the mother?

For one mother who was drugged with antidepressants -- Amy Philo --

the drugs caused her to experience thoughts of violence against her

own newborn babies. After taking antidepressants prescribed by her

doctor, she had visions of killing them (and herself). Upon returning

to her doctor, Amy was told to increase the dosage! Eventually, Amy

realized the drugs were wrecking her own brain chemistry, and she

stopped taking the pills entirely, causing the thoughts of violence

and suicide to subside.

Now, Amy is leading a campaign to stop the MOTHERS Act. She's posted

a heart-wrenching 5-minute video on YouTube that tells her story

(with pictures of her babies, too!):

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(http://youtube.com/watch?v=LQW23XCmOCw)

A local news station also covered her story, and that report can be

viewed here:

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(http://youtube.com/watch?v=W4B8I_8wz6I)

An article explaining more about the effort to stop the MOTHERS Act

is found here:

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(http://birthfriend.wordpress.com/2008/02/14/stop-the-mothers-act/)

As you'll learn from these videos and articles, the real purpose of

the MOTHERS Act is to drug the mothers. Thus, it should really be

called the Drug the MOTHERS Act! It's being pushed by drug companies,

of course, and backed by psychiatrists and corrupt government

officials who have close ties to the pharmaceutical industry. The

whole point of this act is not to protect mothers from depression,

but to recruit mothers as patients and, by doing so, also expose

newborns to psychiatric drugs that will destroy their normal brain

function and turn them into lifelong customers requiring ongoing

chemical treatment.

We must stop the MOTHERS Act. It is a dangerous law created for

marketing purposes, not medical purposes. Treating pregnant women

with antidepressant drugs (and thereby exposing their unborn babies

to those drugs) is one of the most outrageous pro-pharma ideas to

come along in many years. It's not enough to drug the teenagers and

children with these dangerous pharmaceuticals, now Big Pharma wants

to start drugging children before they're even born!

If this law is passed and implemented, I fear for the future of our

babies. Imbalanced by these dangerous pharmaceuticals, mothers are

likely to commit acts of extreme violence against their children.

Then they will be thrown into the prison system, of course, where

they will be drugged with yet more psychiatric drugs (generating yet

more profits for Big Pharma). Their children, meanwhile, will be

taken away by Child Protective Services and treated with psychiatric

drugs under the care of a " psychiatric doctors " who, of course, will

poison that child's brain with a never-ending regimen of Big Pharma's

chemicals. Do you see the scam here? By " screening " pregnant women

for depression, they can create TWO new patients for psychiatric

drugs, even though a family is destroyed in the process.

This is precisely the aim of Big Pharma: Sell more drugs, create more

markets, and earn more profits regardless of the cost in human

suffering. Big Pharma has zero concern for families and zero

compassion for human beings. It only seeks to poison the minds of the

people through television advertising and psychiatric drugs, all

while maximizing its own profits.

What you can do to stop the MOTHERS Act

We must work together to stop this dangerous act that would recruit

mothers to be treated with dangerous psychiatric drugs (while

exposing their unborn babies to those same drugs).

Sign the petition:

_http://www.thepetithttp://www.thttp://www.http://wwwhttp://www.th_

(http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/stop-the-dangerous-and-invasive-)

mothers-act

Also, see Unite For Life at:

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(http://uniteforlife.org/MOTHERSact.htm) (Dr. 's letter is also

linked to this site)

By the way, this is not an article about pro-life vs. pro-choice on

the issue of unborn babies, and I use the term " unborn babies " in a

purely humanitarian sense, because a child that's in the womb and

about to be born is clearly an " unborn baby " whose health must be

protected. I am opposed to the drugging of mothers during any

trimester. Pharmaceuticals simply do not belong in expectant mothers.

Those pharmaceuticals pass straight through to the blood of the

fetus. Regardless of whether you're pro-life or pro-choice on the

issue of abortion, I hope you agree that pregnant women should not be

drugged with antidepressants!

Press release from UNITE / CHAADA

UNITE / CHAADA / ICFDA / COPES Foundation Objection to the Proposed

MOTHERS Act - Bill before Senate Puts Young Children and Mothers in

Serious Danger

To the HELP Committee of the United States Senate:

For years, the March of Dimes has warned not to use meds while

pregnant. Why now encourage mothers to take drugs?

Please register this extreme objection to the proposed MOTHERS Act

(S. 1375) which is now before you in committee. It is my earnest hope

that you will immediately defeat this bill in committee. The bill has

been brought to you under the guise of ensuring safety or support for

new mothers; however, nothing could be further from the truth.

The bill was originally proposed in response to the death by suicide

of Stokes, a pharmaceutical rep. who took her own life by

leaping from a balcony several stories off of the ground. Contrary to

popular understanding it was not post-partum depression that killed

, but the numerous antidepressant drugs she was taking, which

the FDA confirmed double the suicide risk.

Nobody is suggesting that new moms do not ever experience mood

swings, depression, or even psychotic episodes. The more important

issue is what the effect of this bill will be and why nobody is

addressing potential methods of prevention. Everyone knows how many

young moms experience gestational diabetes, but who is addressing the

even higher rate of gestational hypoglycemia, which often initially

manifests as depression? This is a physical condition that is treated

with diet and is exacerbated by antidepressants (which list

hypoglycemia as a side effect).

To simply screen women for post-partum mood disorders and ensure that

they get " treatment, " we would be setting families up for the

expectation of tragedy and increasing the chances of that actually

happening when we refer them to medical " professionals " who are

oblivious to the negative mind-altering effects of psychiatric drugs.

A popular opinion among medical caregivers these days is that " post-

partum mood disorders " must be a sign of an underlying biochemical

imbalance and would be corrected with drugs.

Current drugs used on post-partum women include SSRIs, atypical

antidepressants, and even antipsychotic drugs. These pose a

significant risk to the immediate safety and health of women as well

as their children and families. SSRIs carry a black box warning for

suicide and the most popular one, Effexor (the same medication

Yates was taking when she drowned her 5 children), has the

words " homicidal ideation " listed as a side effect. Nearly every

recent case of infanticide which has made news can be clearly linked

back to a psychiatric drug. These drugs endanger babies and mothers.

Additionally, the drugs can be extremely addictive and also pose a

risk to nurslings or babies exposed in subsequent pregnancies. Some

babies have died from SIDS linked to exposure from pregnancy or

nursing; others have experienced coma, seizures, GI bleeding, heart

defects, lung problems, and many babies died before reaching full

term or soon after birth.

The bill does not address the fact that studies show that biological

agents (antidepressants for example) cited in the bill and already

prescribed to pregnant women can cause congenital heart birth defects

where children have had to undergo open-heart surgeries to correct

this. Also, some babies are being born with organs outside their

bodies, requiring immediate surgery.

In closing I want to re-emphasize the total lack of any real answer

to post-partum depression posed by this bill. If we can prevent post-

partum depression or support moms through it, or offer proven SAFE

and EFFECTIVE natural alternatives to dangerous drugs, then we

should. However we should never, ever become party to a

pharmaceutical campaign to push drugs on the public. We will set

ourselves up for disaster if we allow an invasion into the privacy of

every family in the country and suggest to our most vulnerable

citizens that they might be mentally ill.

We must do everything in our power to protect innocent children, and

giving their mothers addictive drugs which pose a significant risk of

causing suicide and violence does not protect anyone. It does cause

the child to become addicted while still in the womb and sets up drug

dependence which can be lifelong.

We still have no idea what effect most drugs have on developing

brains. It might take decades for the impact on the developing brain

to become apparent.

For information on the research pertaining to the risks of

antidepressants and other treatments for new moms and their babies,

details about the Stokes case (or you can read the letter by

Dr. Ann Blake at _http://uniteforlifehttp://uniteforlhttp://_

(http://uniteforlife.org/MOTHERSact.htm#...) ),

as well as information on prevention strategies and safe, effective

treatments for post-partum mood disorders, please contact us.

Sincerely,

Amy Philo

Founder, www.uniteforlife.Fou

Co-Founder, www.chaada.org

Camille Milke

Founder, www.copesfoundationFoun

New Mexico State Director of the ICFDA

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(http://www.drugawareness.org/home.html)

Mother of a victim of psychiatric drug-induced suicide and

grandmother to a now motherless child

Dr. Ann Blake

Executive Director of the ICFDA

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(http://www.drugawareness.org/home.html)

Author of Prozac: Pancaea or Pandora? Our Serotonin Nightmare

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