First and foremost, the best advice is to have a conversation with your GP before you start trying to conceive. "Quite simply, the earlier you start thinking about it the better," says Dr Trudi Seneviratne, Chair of the Perinatal Faculty at the Royal College of Psychiatry. "In England we've had a huge expansion of perinatal mental health services in the last three years, and our mother and baby outpatient services now offer specialist pre-conception counselling. Your GP can refer you for a conversation before you fall pregnant," she explains.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original article at https://patient.info/news-and-features/how-to-plan-for-pregnancy-when-you-have-mental-health-problems