Comments: Seroquel Wants You!
I have a concern: I am taking a lot of psychiatric medication -- atypicals, anitdepressents, anticonvulsants -- and when I'm ready to have a kid, I do NOT want him or her to have birth defects.
Really, I'm very scared. I mean, I'm not going to have a kid anytime soon, but when I do, I want him or her to be HEALTHY in every which way. No physical defects, no mental defects, no physical abnormalities, no mental abnormalities, no physcial illnesses, no mental illnesses... just healthy.
It's really scary -- I don't think I could handle having a kid who's retarded or is deaf, or blind or is missing a limb. I REALLY would have a very hard time with that.
But I want a kid so badly! I really do! And deciding not to even try having a kid becuase of risks, would make me even more miserable. All my life I've wanted to have a kid so badly and I hope and pray with all my heart that I could have a kid who is just PERFECT in my eyes.
I want my kid to be brilliant. I want him or her to be talented. I want him or her to be successful in life. But even more than all that, I just want my kid to be heatlhy.
Is that too much to ask? I was reading in the Times an article about taking over the counter medication during pregancy. It's basic punch was that people should be extremely wary about that. But, if even tylonal is too dangerous, what about powerful medications such as risperdal and abilify?
I know there's no way anyone would ever let me go off my mediation, so it's not like I could just for nine months go off of it. And when I bring this issue up with my doctor, he says that we'll worry about it when the time comes. But I'm worried about it now! I want to be assured now that nothing happens to my baby!
Anyway, I just want, so so much for my kid to turn out completely normal and healthy. I could live with learning disabilites. I could live with little things like that. But I so don't want my kid to have down syndrome or something that will make him or her chronically and severly different. I don't want that to happen.
Every day I pray that my kid will turn out healthy. I want that more than anything else in the world.
Posted by Gwen Davis at October 29, 2005 07:43 PM