Serotonin Reuptake Inhibitor Use During Pregnancy

To the Editor As reproductive psychiatrists, we face the challenging task of translating articles such as the one by Brown et al¹ to our patients. The media have not made our task easy, with sensational headlines such as, “Maternal SSRI Use Linked to Speech, Language Disorders”² and “Study Links Antidepressants in Pregnancy With Language Disorders.”³ Despite inherent study design difficulties⁴ and small absolute differences, the authors claimed that “we have provided novel evidence of an association between speech/language disorders in offspring and [serotonin reuptake inhibitor] use during pregnancy.”¹