California Voice: Jury is out on whether new mothers should use GLP-1s

Eight weeks after she gave birth, a friend left me a tearful voicemail. I’m a clinical psychologist specializing in postpartum depression and psychosis, but mental health wasn’t her issue. Postpartum weight gain was.

She told me she needed help. She’d gained 40 pounds during her pregnancy, and she was still 25 pounds overweight. “I’m going back to work and I can’t look like this,” she said. “I need to take Ozempic or something. But do you know if it’s safe?”

It’s a great question.