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| Name: Melissa | Date: Jun 28th, 2006 12:12 PM |
| my best friend smoked while breastfeeding (like you said not while holding the baby). her doctor said that as long as she stayed below 10 cigs a day then the nicotine shouldn't get into your milk supply. hope this helped and good luck with the birth of your baby! i know i don't know you but it still makes me proud that you have chosen to breastfeed. ↑ |
| Name: Aimey | Date: Jun 28th, 2006 3:47 PM |
| i haven't spoken to my doctor about it- i probably should. If the bit you said about staying under 10 cigs a day is true then ill have to watch myself as i'm normally on about 15/20 a day, much less now as i'm pregnant. I thought if anything smoking less would mean that less nicotine would get into the blood supply, rather than ou having to smoke a certain amount before any nicotine would get into the blood supply. Did you friend stay below 10 cigs a day? And was her breast feeding okay?? Thanks for saying your proud i've chosen to breastfeed, although tbh i can't see why anyone, medical reasons aside, would choose not to. ↑ |
| Name: Melissa | Date: Jun 28th, 2006 7:27 PM |
| when your preg your baby gets everything because they are directly connected to your blood supply but when your breastfeeding that isn't so. your milk doesn't get everything in i that you eat or ingest or whatever. it is kinda more "filtered" than when your preg. so you have a little more lee way (sp?). if ya know what i mean. also my friend and her baby are doing fine with breastfeeding. i was also wondering (when i was preg) if i would be able to have a occasonal drink from time to time. my doc said that i could have 1 drink every 4 hrs before the it would bother my son. don't know if you drink or not but thought i'd metion it. i didn't ever drink very much before i got preg. but i craved the fun summer drinks like crazy. i think just cause i knew i couldn't have them. anyways hope some of this helped ↑ |
| Name: rain | Date: Jun 29th, 2006 3:41 AM |
| http://www.lalecheleague.org/FAQ/smoking.html I am not a nursing mother now, but nursed both my children years ago. I found this site that might help give you more info. ↑ |
| Name: Bekah | Date: Jan 4th, 2007 2:22 PM |
| hi!! i quit smoking while i was pregnant, but i began again when my baby was 7 weeks old...he is perfectly healthy, but i do NOT nurse if i have just smoked, i always wait at least a half an hour before allowing him to nurse, so basically, good timing helps. i read somewhere that all the baby gets after 30 min is the caffiene...so although i wish i didn't smoke at all, the only time i do is when he is sleeping. ↑ |
| Name: KarenM | Date: Jan 4th, 2007 9:49 PM |
| Ok sorry for the length, but here's a synopsis of the info I found on "smoking whilst breastfeeding"...good for you for BF'ing btw!!! -Babies and children who are exposed to cigarette smoke have a much higher incidence of pneumonia, asthma, ear infections, bronchitis, sinus infections, eye irritation, and croup. -Colic occurs more often in babies whose mothers or fathers smoke or if a breastfeeding mother smokes. Researchers believe that not only does the nicotine transferred into mother's milk upset baby but the passive smoke in the home acts as an irritant. Babies of smoking parents fuss more, and mothers who smoke may be less able to cope with a colicky baby (due to lower levels of prolactin). -Heavy smoking by breastfeeding moms occasionally causes symptoms in the breastfeeding baby such as nausea, vomiting, abdominal cramps and diarrhea. -Babies of smoking mothers and fathers have a seven times greater chance of dying from sudden infant death syndrome (SIDS). -Children of smoking parents have two to three times more visits to the doctor, usually from respiratory infections or allergy-related illnesses. -Children who are exposed to passive smoke in the home have lower blood levels of HDL, the good cholesterol that helps protect against coronary artery disease. -Children of smoking parents are more likely to become smokers themselves. -A recent study found that growing up in a home in which two parents smoked could double the child's risk of lung cancer later in life. Smoking has been linked to: -Earlier weaning. One study showed that the heaviest smokers tend to wean the earliest. -Lower milk production -Interference with milk let-down -Lower levels of prolactin. The hormone prolactin must be present for milk synthesis to occur. -One study (Laurberg 2004) indicated that smoking mothers who live in areas of mild to moderate iodine deficiency have less iodine in their breastmilk (needed for baby's thyroid function) compared to nonsmoking mothers. The study authors suggested that breastfeeding mothers who smoke consider taking an iodine supplement. And the final comments from this page: -Cut down. The less you smoke, the smaller the chance that difficulties will arise. The risks increase if you smoke more than 20 cigarettes per day. -Don't smoke immediately before or during breastfeeding. It will inhibit let-down and is dangerous to your baby. -Smoke immediately after breastfeeding to cut down on the amount of nicotine in your milk during nursing. Wait as long as possible between smoking and nursing. It takes 95 minutes for half of the nicotine to be eliminated from your body. -Avoid smoking in the same room with your baby. Even better, smoke outside, away from your baby and other children. Don't allow anyone else to smoke near your baby. References for this info were cited from pediatric, medical/health journals, community health programs, LLL and were from 2004 or older. ↑ |
| Name: KarenM | Date: Jan 4th, 2007 9:50 PM |
| Dang, that turned out to be longer than I had hoped...sorry about that but the info was good :) Good luck!!! ↑ |
