Hi everyone,
I’m a FTM and my baby girl has been diagnosed with a slight cardiac abnormality which will likely require monitoring for the rest of her life, which was discovered due to a heart murmur picked up at birth. She is nearly 6 months old and will have her next scan in a few weeks to see if anything has changed.
I am really struggling to accept this diagnosis. She means the world to me and I feel so sad thinking of the monitoring she will need to have and worry myself sick with the uncertainty of how things may change in the future.
I am seeing a therapist to help with anxiety but my GP has also prescribed sertraline 50mg to try. I have never been on medication before and feel really nervous about it, especially because I know you can feel worse before better and also because my baby is breastfed. I wondered if others who have been in similar situations weighed up the decision of whether to take meds, and what their experiences were?
Thanks in advance!