Re: Xanax and Pregnancy

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Not serious at all. First of all, you took a tiny amount over a short time period.

I did between the fourth and fifth >week. I just didn't know I was pregnant or I would have never done
>this.

Second, at this stage, major organ formation has barely even begun.

I used them to ease my flying anxiety during an overseas. My >Ob-Gyn assures me not to worry but then I find such conflicting
>information from various resources that I don't know what to think.
>Please give me more information so that I can get a second opinion.
>
>Thanks

Here's what "Drugs in Pregnancy and Lacatation" says about Xanax: "...no congenital anomalies have been attributed to the use of alprazolam during human pregnancies.... " You'll have enough other things to worry about during the pregnancy (and especially for the first 18 years or so after birth!) -- you definitely do not need to worry about 3 Xanax.

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M. Kelly Shanahan, MD, FACOG
S. Lake Tahoe, CA

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