Effexor® and Birth Defects

Antidepressants such as Effexor and Pristiq may cause birth defects in newborns, according to scientific information that has been emerging since 2005. 

Data from various international studies show that some antidepressants may cause birth defects. The FDA has issued warnings about certain antidepressants since 2005, and their capability of causing birth defects. 

Our Effexor attorneys are currently representing hundreds of families across the United States whose babies were born with serious birth defects due to the mother’s ingestion of an antidepressant during pregnancy. Women throughout the nation have taken antidepressants such as Effexor or Pristiq during their pregnancy because they thought it was safe. These mothers have given birth to babies with disfiguring birth defects like cleft lip and club foot, or life-threatening congenital defects, including heart defects like tetralogy of fallot and coarctation of the aorta.

Heart defects, in particular, have been linked to prenatal exposure of antidepressants like Effexor and Pristiq. In some cases, the congenital heart defects are so severe that infants must undergo full heart transplants to survive.

Our legal team has more experience handling antidepressant birth defect litigation than any other law firm in the United States. Ten experienced attorneys from two prestigious law firms work tirelessly to bring the makers of these defective antidepressants to justice.

Recognized preeminent plaintiffs firms Baum, Hedlund, Aristei & Goldman and Robinson Calcagnie Robinson Shapiro Davis, Inc. continue to be in the forefront of antidepressant litigation. Our team has decades of combined experience handling pharmaceutical product liability, consumer class actions and mass tort litigation against major drug companies. Our Effexor birth defect lawyers have also successfully handled more than 3,000 SSRI-antidepressant cases in the past two decades.

If your baby was born with a birth defect and you took an antidepressant like Effexor or Pristiq during your pregnancy, you may be entitled to compensation.  Receive a free case evaluation by contacting our Effexor birth defect law firm today.