Why I stayed on bipolar meds in pregnancy!!

So good to see you again Lizzie 💙💙💙 I just prayed a Hail Mary for you and your baby and your family and will continue to remember you in prayer. I'll add pregnant women with bipolar disorder to my daily prayer categories just because of you. ❤ I'm bipolar too but I'm older and never had kids. But i know firsthand how unbearably painful living with insomnia is. It almost got me to commit suicide so horrible a monster it is😭😭😭 But I've been getting better and finding solutions as I became a Catholic and started praying the Rosary. The Rosary actually helps me relax and go to sleep when I either can't fall asleep or can't stay asleep. It also helped me with the creepy nocturnal fears I have experienced my whole life even as a Christian before Rosary Prayer as well as with that ever stalking fatigue that leaves one physically and mentally unable to function, yet there's no reprieve from the demands of the daily grind😭😭😭 It's amazing having a resources/weapon I can pick up at will and make rest happen instead of just hoping I'll get to sleep eventually. 🙏🙏🙏 My Love and affection for our Blessed Mother and this Miraculous Catholic devotion have no bounds❣️❣️❣️ I never thought I'd be happy or enjoy even a little bit of rest in this world that felt like nonstop suffering for me for most of my life but this Prayer has become the "rest maker" for me and I'm the happiest I have ever been since Imy earliest memories 🙏💙🙏 As I pray I have also gotten insights into other things I can do to help my body including dietary stuff that has helped me be able to titrate my dosage of Seroquel downwards to where I'm almost taking a flake because even 25mg is now too much for me and gives me a crazy headache! And I was originally on 450mg like you. I'm grateful for the years the Seroquel has helped me because it's literally the only medication that ever brought me even a little sleep and relief❣️ Everything else made me sick and nauseous and exhausted and tired and even depressed some more😱 Our Lady Queen of The Holy Rosary pray for Lizzie and her baby and Trevor❣️ May they be a beautiful family of holiness in the pattern of Your own Holy Family of Nazareth.💙💙💙✝️❤️❤️❤️✝️🙏💙🙏✝️

I’m grateful for this information Lizzie thank you for sharing! I’m glad to know there are registries I’d never known that before.

I hope your baby will be born healthy. Joy to you, Liz. Happy Leap Year.

Lizzie, my sister is also pregnant with her 3rd though. She's planning for another C-section. My brother-in-law wants 5, no they are not Catholic, actually they joined a Methodist church last year. It was a complete shock to me, because I thought they weren't going to raise my nephews as Christians. Glad you can help with the research.

The sub-director in my first employment, had 3 kids, 2 of them had down syndrome. He said he and his wife wanted 5 children, and people asked him often if really wanted to keep trying for more kids, considering the had 2 out of 3 with that abnormality, and he always replied that yes, they were going to get 5 children, no matter what: "They will be loved, no matter that kind of baby God sends us, they will all be loved the same". I will never forget him. When my son was born, now 11, I was ready to accept him following the same attutide: love him no matter what. And thank God he's healthy and a good boy. Glad to see a video of you again, Lizzie, today is the first day in about a year, that YT suggests one of your videos.

Lizzie you’re loved by God. So is your child. Don’t fear anything in this world! Enjoy the adventure God has given you. ❤

Many blessings to you and your husband 🎉!

I trust Lizzie 💯 that she made the right choice here ❤Fair minded folks can disagree with her on her opinions beliefs or values but what no one could ever reasonably dispute is that she is not extremely intelligent. Lizzie researches researches some more and when she thinks she found out everything she can she does more research. Her attention to detail is second to none among really anyone I’ve seen. If she is making a choice I guarantee she’s looked at it a million ways from every possible angle and is comfortable that it is the most informed one given the available facts. Lizzie is thoughtful measured and always thinks before she acts. Trevor is a super smart guy that also would not agree to this if he truly believed it was wrong. I still disagree with Lizzie on specific ideas mainly politics but I have long passed gotten to the point where I trust her implicitly on major life choices and judgement calls that affect her or those around her because I know how much she cares and how much thought she puts into every choice. She doesn’t make decisions on a whim or just to see what happens. If Lizzie has decided something as it pertains to her own health or her families well being I know it is the most informed most thought through decision that could’ve been made and I give her the benefit of the doubt. I know she would go to the ends of earth for those she loves and would never put anyone in harms way much less her own unborn child. I’m proud of Lizzie and know without a doubt that this choice as hard as it obviously was is the best one for all involved. Give Lizzie some credit and in this case defer to what she knows and has found out instead of relying on our own preconceived notions.

Congratulations God bless you and your family

Congratulations ❤

Congratulations!!!

Thank you lizzie for the precious informations i am bipolar type one my mania makes me sleep deprived for months wow i think being pregnant with bipolar is quite challenging i am on risperidone my antipsychotic taver antiseizure and antidepressant zenexor if i plan a pregnancy in the future i need to see what meds i must be on and change my dosage maybe lower my dosage

Big fan of yours I love your videos you have really helped me in my faith journey!! Congratulations on the baby being a parent is very rewarding also it's a fun challenge to try to out reproduce the pagan s lol. Ive heard of a lot of people with bipolar who has been completely cured by switching to the carnivore diet. I would look up McKayla Peterson carnivore diet. Laura Horn has also done the carnivore diet. Not trying to put shade on your decision it sounds well-reasoned just thought you might think it's interesting

I'm glad you are thinking this all through. I wonder if you have heard of Dr. Chris Palmer of Harvard. He wrote a book on diet and how it helps with so many mental health issues. I've even seen bipolar referenced. The book is called brain energy and the diet is the ketogenic diet.

Lizzie, I wonder about Fibromyalgia. or whatever. It causes tiredness. I would have to have a C-section, but my mom says you can't choose to have that.

I mean that makes sense right, Lizzie. My first nephew had to have a C-section because he was under stress, which I didn't understand. It's like how they know if a baby is stressed. Lizzie, are you allowed to take Melatonin? It helps with sleep. Your body naturally makes melatonin from sunlight. During the winter I've been taking it, and it helps. The brand I like is Olly, and you can order it online. If you are worried about packaging, get the plastic bag of it rather than a container. I don't get visual only auditory hallucinations.

Your cute little baby bump!!

You're so lovely ❤❤❤❤❤❤

I was on anti depressants while pregnant my child was fine however I did not breast feed because of the milk containing a drug. So just don't breast feed.

My psychiatrist told me that Seroquel can cause dependency in an infant.