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| Name: 3 time nursing mom | Date: Feb 18th, 2006 7:05 AM |
| Preggy, Only your doctor can best answer your question. But I think I can safely guess, that the different reasoning is not so much as how the baby is affected by your meds, but more how you both would be affected by you not being on your meds. Ultimately your health affects your baby's health. Let me explain further. While you are pregnant the baby must eat what you eat, (I know you probably already know that, lol) including your medications. Though not all medications we take goes through our bloodstream and into the baby's, but for the most part, unless we have been informed by our doctors otherwise, it is best to assume that whatever meds we take our baby does too for that is, I think, almost always the case. So the doctor has to make a decision. (S)He has to balance who would be affected more adversely from your taking the meds: the baby, or, you and then ultimately the baby also. In your situation, during your pregnancy, apparently your doctor believes that either the heart meds that you take will not affect your baby adversely while you are pregnant, or your doctor believes that if you went off the meds the risks to your health and then ultimately the baby's health are greater then the risks to the baby's health while you are on them. If the reason your doctor has you on the meds now that you are pregnant is that they do not affect your baby at this time, then maybe the meds are unable to cross over into the placenta (which I know some cannot do) but are able to come through your milk. However I do not know if this would be the case or not, it is purely a guess. If however the reason your doctor has you on the meds now is because (s)he believes the risks to your health are greater then the risks exposure to the meds present to your baby while you are pregnant, then once baby is born there is no longer any neccesity to expose baby to the meds. And if the meds come through your breastmilk, then breastfeeding your baby would not be a good idea. Now once again, this is me only guessing. But it has also been my experience, for I had some slight complications during my one of my pregnancies that required me to take meds that are not recommended for pregnant women. But given the alternatives, the risks to my health that I would have taken by not taking the meds, posed a greater health risk to my baby's health then the risks she was faced with by my taking the meds. Fortunately for me, my health problem was temporary, and by the time my baby was born, I was no longer on the meds, so I was able to breastfeed without concern. Once again, I strongly recommend you ask your doctor this question, for only (s)he can give you your answer. Your doctor should be informing you about matters of this nature quite thoroughly, if (s)he is not then it is your responsibility to make sure (s)he does. And as a last note, I'd like to say to not be too concerned about not breastfeeding under these situations Preggy. As you know already from your first, you and your baby's bond will be just as wonderful with a bottle, because you know that only in that way are you offering your baby what is in his/her best interest. You are giving him/her a full tummy filled with all the necessary nutrients that formula does provide, and a healthy-as-she-can-be mommy to feed it to him/her I hope this helped. ↑ |
| Name: preggy with #2!!! | Date: Feb 18th, 2006 8:06 PM |
| I was on meds got off them and I got pregnant with my son they put me on new ones now I am pregnant again and for almost two years still have been taking them because they are still weening me from the meds I have to take them still but if I get off them should it be okay to breast feed I didn't with my son and I don't think it affected him by bottle feeding. But aint every baby different! Thank you for talking to me! ↑ |
| Name: felicia | Date: Mar 20th, 2006 2:39 AM |
| define bottle babies ↑ |
