On quetiapine and looking after a newborn baby

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Hello everyone. Just wanted to see if there are any Mums out there that had a newborn whilst being on quetiapine.

I am on 75mg and I am 25 weeks pregnant (so I have a while to wait before I have a newborn hopefully).
I've just been worrying about being able to wake up during the nights to feed/change my child, or if because of my quetiapine I will just sleep through. I don't want to be too drowsey to not be able to look after my baby. I have my partner who would probably do all the night feeds if needed but he will also have to go to work and I don't think he'd be able to do full time work as well as doing night feeds, I also don't want him to have 0 sleep. I want it to be a joint effort.
I don't think I'd be able to lower my dose anymore, quetiapine keeps me on the straight and narrow and although I hate being on it, it really does work at keeping me healthy.
Anyway just wanted to know if anyone else managed to raise a newborn on the same medication and what you did and how you did it? Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

I was on the same drug and found it horrendous. Especially for knocking me out cold.

I really think that they will look to change your meds before the baby arrives (congrats btw). I am on lamortrigine (sp?) now and feel so much better in every way.

I was actually put on it straight after having my second baby to prevent a post-natal psychosis. I was fine with it though I think I was on a low dose, tapering down to nothing over a few months. I did evening and early morning feeds but made sure I had a solid block of 4-6 hours sleep each night in the early days, I think that was the advice. I was fine and the baby phase with my second son is a much happier memory as a result. I breastfeed on it too, it's fine for that I believe. Good luck!

That should say breastfed, not feed - he's four now!