Lamictal and pregnancy

Nicelady...Don't be so quick to give up on another pregnancy.  May daughter was on Depakote for 8 years.  Her dosage was the same as yours.  She has a really good doctor and he talked several times to her about becoming pregnant while she was on the drug.  It's true there could be a higher rate of some birth defects.  but he felt the dosage she was on was not so large that the percentage was low.  He did tell her to plan, plan and plan the pregnancy so they would run tests on the baby as early as being six weeks pregnant.  If anything really bad showed up they could determine what to do at that time.  Spinal Bifida was the largest risk and even now he feels with them doing infeto and repairing the spine before a baby is born that even that can be corrected.  (That is being done at Venderbilt in Nashville and now have enough cases to document the childrens progress.  People magazine had an article on it about 5-6 years ago).  Anyway, she really did well on that medicine.  She is planning on becoming pregnant next year and is on a pre-natal vitamin and large dosage of folic acid already.  Her ob-gyn has asked that she try the Lamictal and see if they work and go on it instead of the Depakote.  She has finally gotten weaned into the Lactimal and we will see in time how it is working...before she gets pregnant.  She has told me several times since then that she really trusted her neur. and would have had children anyway on the depakote.  She just really would have had every test she could have.  And I tend to believe that the dosage was not huge and chances weren't as great as if she was on a much larger dose and that the doctor would have watched her pregnancy closely.