I've been on prevacid and my internist switched me to pepcid when I started trying a while back but my RE (reproductive endocrinologist) said I couldn't take that either because it does cross the placenta. There is no evidence that it causes harm to the baby, they just don't really know. I was able to stop it as soon as I found out and just took a LOT of Rolaids!
As far as the AD's go. I've gotten mixed reports. If you look online, they say that Zoloft and Prozac have been the two that have had the most testing done. Again, there is no evidence that they hurt the baby. I found one report that showed that moms who were on ad's while pregnant, their babies were a bit slower and more lathergic at birth, for the first 48 hours but they couldn't find any evidence of the drugs in the baby's systems. Once the first 48 hours past, there was no difference in either goup of babies.
I tried to stop mine, several times, the most recent a couple of months before we stared trying the first time. I couldn't do it. From the research I did, I believed it was better to have a slightly "drugged", happy mom then a "clean" depressed mom!  I was able to cut back to just 50mg of zoloft a day and that seemed to be enough to keep me stable.
My last RE was fine with that as was the high risk fetal maternal medicine doc I was seeing while pregnant with the twins. However, the most recent RE I saw this past Spring said she would really prefer me to not take it if possible, just because I will have to be on steroids and blood thinners because of my RA.
I know that didn't really answer your question. I don't think there is an absolute answer to be honest. My suggestion would be to switch to Zoloft and try the lowest dose, I think they do make a 25mg but not positive. I'm currently on 100mg a day but will try to taper if we decide to try again in the future.
As a side note, be sure to start your prenatals as soon as possible. They say they do the most good when you have been taking them for at least 2 months before getting pregnant! 
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