However if there is some emergency situation where something needs to be performed and mom is still breastfeeding then we always have that discussion with
the mom about the medications used.
Not exact matches
If you have questions
about milk supply, pain while breastfeeding,
medication, pumping, returning to work while breastfeeding, donating milk, nursing multiples, breastfeeding your NICU baby, this website has a huge collection of resources that helps
moms avoid the «booby traps» of breastfeeding.
As the number of Americans relying on prescription drugs continues to increase, breastfeeding
moms need to be hyper vigilant
about the prescription and over-the-counter
medications they take.
As a matter of fact, if you look at the book Making More Milk by Lisa Marasco and Diane West, it talks
about how many
moms with PCOS are asked to stay on the Metformin when they're experiencing low milk supply, so I don't know why that
medication would be stopped.
Earth Mama created a Free Birth Plan to help all
moms have better births — whether you are going all - natural or thinking
about medications to help you along the way.
It's really I think a good tool for our new
moms because it's all
about tracking the effectiveness of some
medication that you might be taking for a postpartum depression or other postpartum mood disorders.
The site Kelly
Mom states that these
medications should not affect your milk, but suggests talking to your doctor in advance
about medications that are breastfeeding friendly.
Moms can take necessary
medications without worrying
about they will harm their baby by passing it through to the milk supply.
Moms can call me
about medications and I can look them up to see what Thomas Hale recommends.
Robin Kaplan: We had Kathleen Kendall - Tackett on the show
about a couple of months, I guess
about a month ago talking
about this and she's actually returning in a couple weeks to talk more specifically
about treatment and she definitely, same thing you're saying Dr. Nice like, having a healthy
mom who can take care of her baby is way, outweighs the negatives of not taking the
medication and still breastfeeding.
According to the La Leche League that a
mom should be healthy, well - nourished, taking no
medication, ideally she would have an infant
about the same age as the one she's going to be cross-nursing, she should be screened for tuberculosis, syphilis, hepatitis, herpes, HIV and other infectious agents, she should not smoke, drink alcohol, consume large amounts of caffeinated beverages or artificially sweetened beverages, and her own infant should already be very healthy, gaining weight on a regular basis and free of all infections.
Well, at least Theresa, being active on facebook groups of breastfeeding
moms, are you seeing questions posting over and over again
about medications and breastfeeding?
Being a crunchy
mom has a set of expectations —
medication - free child birth, breastfeeding, babywearing, staying home, cooking homemade meals, etc. — that don't necessarily align every single people's choices
about their bodies, their babies, and their families.
If you are one of those
moms who always keeps a small bag stocked with first aid supplies, travel sized
medications, and baby toiletries, stick the spare nightlight and bulb in there as well, so you don't have to worry
about forgetting it.
Adjustments to
medication can be made, regarding concerns
about how the
medication may affect the baby, how
mom is feeling, nutritional intake, and how physically active her lifestyle is.
The three play energetically off of each other as suburban
moms who are all at the end of their respective ropes: Beth (Hendricks) has an adulterous husband (Matthew Lillard) who lost all their money; Annie (Whitman) is a grocery store clerk who's
about to lose custody of her son; and Ruby (Retta) has a sick child that needs an expensive
medication.
I talked to her
mom about the many options — other
medications, supplements, physical therapy, acupuncture, intra-articular injections, etc..