If you are pregnant or planning to be, you've probably heard alarming headlines lately about

Tylenol, SSRIs, the risk of autism or ADHD.

It's enough to make anybody anxious, even without a history of mental illness.

So today we're cutting through all the confusion and the fear. I am joined by

psychiatrist Dr. Katie Unverfer, a board certified psychiatrist who specializes in perinatal

mental health to discuss what we need to know and how you can make empowered informed

decisions for your mental health and your baby's well-being.

So thank you so much for being here again.

Yes, thanks for having me.

So happy you're here.

Truly, this has been something that I look at and I listen to the news and I kind of start to

look cross-eyed and so I need somebody who knows a lot more than I do. Yeah, happy to

help. Okay. So let's get straight to it because I want to sort of get to the point as fast as we can

to help people manage this or at least be informed enough to make their own decisions. So let's talk

about the recent headlines around Tylenol. What is happening there?

What is the FDA responding to with these sort of new labeling discussions?

I think what the FDA is responding to is that there have been some recent studies that have

associated Tylenol with an increased risk of autism

in pregnancy. So the FDA recently sent like an article or a letter to physician sort of advising

them that there are some studies that show that there's an association of Tylenol with autism

in pregnancy, but it does say in that letter that it's

not a causal link, that a causal link has not been established. I think that when we look at this

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