focusing on the woman's mental health and especially qualitative research
what is your question specifically? Only anti-psychotics or also anti-depressants? There are not too many women on anti-psychotics that are having babies. They do not tend to be in stable relationships, as they are skizophrenics, so they already have what to deal with without reproducing and having a baby. Most of the research is on anti-depressants
A brief Google search threw up: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25171856 which says pregnancy was a deterrent to mediation cessation. In line with the other comments here, stopping such meds during pregnancy does not seem too common. There are some studies that measure pregnancy outcomes, but not the experience of cessation. It might be more useful to first establish activity/current use of antipsychotics among pregnant women and then why would need/want to stop the medications during pregnancy? Is there research to suggest they should stop? Or clinical guidelines to encourage cessation?
I assume that unless cessation is promoted through guidelines and/or clinicians, pregnant women have little/no reason to stop taking meds and the same goes for the women's healthcare providers - they will generally not encourage something that is not researched/proven/cost-effective/safe.
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