Good morning. I'm looking for some advice/experiences of depression in pregnancy, and taking antidepressants while pregnant please. For all of my teenage/adult life I have suffered from chronic depression. Most of the time it is low-moderate in severity, with a couple of periods of severe depression (usually triggered by difficult life events). It's usually when it's edging towards severe that I have sought help and I have previously taken sertraline, fluoxetine and venlafaxine, as well as having engaged in counselling, cbt and dynamic interpersonal therapy. Unfortunately none of these have made a significant difference, even the medications. At best they've just slightly taken the edge off so I'm not utterly miserable constantly, but I never feel good enough to start making positive changes in my life or just feel good about myself/life. I feel like I spend my whole existence just trying to survive each day with as little emotional discomfort as possible, and fulfilling my obligations (feeding my dd, getting her to school, making sure her uniform is clean and ironed, homework done, making sure there's clean clothes and dishes, electric on the meter etc). I'm currently 23 weeks pregnant and I think dp and I are basically separating. Obviously this comes with all kinds of sadness and fear and I'm worried about my mental health. I'm struggling to feel connected to my baby and I'm not taking care of myself like I should be right now. I really don't want to take antidepressants while pregnant, and because of past experience I also don't think they're likely to make much difference to how I'm feeling anyway. But I just don't know what else to do 😞 I know that I'll manage to keep plodding along no matter what, but I really don't want to feel like this and I'm also worried about what kind of effect this stress and depression is having on my unborn baby. Thanks in advance for any advice or support.