wanting to get pregnant?

Hi, hope you all ok, and hope some moe can help me
me and my partner are wanting to start a family, i am starting to come off my tablets as the phyc said i can't be on any while i am pregnant.
i'mjust wondering if anybody has started a family with bpd? if so were you ok and able to manage. This is somthing I have wanted all my life but new I couldn't a few years ago. I am feeling a lot better now and starting some new therapy.

p.s I have so many people teling me that I can't have a baby with my bpd. this is upsetting for me as, as above this is all i have ever dreamed of a family of my own.
i am also getting married in 2014 don't know if this makes a diffrence.

You can completely have a baby, if your body is able.

I agree with your psych - you need to come off of any psychotropic meds for awhile to let them clear your system prior to trying to get pregnant, because these can have effects on the child in the short and long term - many of these effects are just now coming to light, so you seem to be following the safer protocol here.

Why are people telling you that you cannot have a child with BPD? Because they fear you not having your meds? Do you have a beefed up therapy plan in place to boost your support system for the 10+ months you will be without meds?

You mentioned getting married in a year or so - is your fiancee aware of your BPD, and is he supportive to having the baby? If so, then I would not see why it is anyone else's business if you have both BPD and a baby - many members here are BPD mothers, and many of them are very successful at being parents.


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