Ethical duty of care aside, good antenatal treatment appears prudent given the greater risk of obstetric complications in women with schizophrenia (Sacker et al, 1996). In a meta analysis of studies examining outcomes for pregnant women with and without schizophrenia, evidence exists of a small but statistically significant increase in the risk of low birth weight and inferior neonatal condition in infants of the schizophrenia cohort (Sacker et al, 1996). A recent meta analysis (Webb, et al, 2005) summarized that exposure to maternal psychotic illness is associated with a "higher than expected" risk of perinatal and infant mortality, including an almost twofold chance of fetal death or stillbirth (p.1052). Jablensky and colleagues (2005) further discovered that women whose psychiatric illness commenced before the birth of their child were significantly more likely to experience obstetric complications than women whose first admission for mental illness was after the delivery. Moreover, the offspring of women with schizophrenia carry with them an increased risk for developing psychosis (Mednick, Parnas & Schulsinger, 1987). This observation has driven the neurodevelopmental hypothesis about the aetiology of schizophrenia, which posits that alterations to early fetal brain development in utero might lead to a predisposition to the formation of schizophrenia later in life (Lewis & Murray, 1987). Such perinatal contributions to adult mental health outcomes points to the necessity to provide pregnant women who have psychosis, with proper and specialized treatment.