Perinatal Mental Health

Today on the podcast we pick the brain of Dr Matthew Coates, a psychiatrist with experience in perinatal mental health. We talk about the common dilemmas of antidepressant prescribing in pregnancy and how to pick the post-natal patient with genuine mental illness as well as breastfeeding and neonatal issues. We also take a look at the more serious end of the spectrum of psychosis and mania in pregnancy and the post-partum period.