There are many concerns about the safety of lithium use during pregnancy. In patients who are pregnant and stable on the medication, is it better to risk maintaining the medication through the pregnancy, or change to a potentially “safer” alternative? What about after the pregnancy if the patient is breastfeeding the newborn? What are the exact risks to the fetus and neonate if the patient maintains lithium treatment- or conversely stops treatment? 

Each of these questions should be considered when working with a patient taking lithium who wants to or has become pregnant, but what data exist to help answer these questions? This webinar will present data on what the risks to both patient and baby might be throughout the pregnancy and into the postpartum/lactation period, and how this information might be used to educate patients to determine an appropriate course of action.