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smoking while breastfeeding?

  • Posted on May 12, 2011 at 10:22 pm

i had totally quit smoking while i was pregnant, but for some dumb reason i picked it back up again. stupid addictions.
anyway, i was wondering how back it will effect my daughter if i am breastfeeding. I only smoke about 5 or 6 a day. I never smoke around her or even in the house. I change my clothes for smoking because I know it can get on your clothing and hurt the baby. how much is it going to effect her? I’ve tried looking on the internet, but I’m not finding anything really. can it still be very dangerous for her? does it pass through the breastmilk?

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Breastfeeding Question?

  • Posted on February 22, 2011 at 7:24 am

I had a daughter who I formula fed and breastfed, but mostly breastfed for four months.

I am not pregnant again and I am scared that I wont have milk.

I dried out sinced my baby refuse my breast and wont drink my milk.

I wasn to breastfeed my second child but my boobs don’t feel the same. They are not even sore nor getting big even if I am ten weeks pregnant.

Will I produce more milk the second time around?

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BREASTFEEDING MOMS PLEASE ANSWER FAST…..?

  • Posted on January 20, 2011 at 7:23 am

Ok I breastfeed my daughter exclusively & she doesn’t like OR take any type of formula at any time, my breasts are completely dry AND I know that I am never out, my body keeps constantly making milk for her, she doesn’t eat or drink anything else so I should have a lot but I don’t, when she sucks nothing comes out and when I squeeze my breast only a drop or two of milk come out – my problem is she won’t go to sleep without eating what can I do to get milk or produce more milk in like an hour or less? it’s really a problem and milk just won’t come out enough to satisfy her….
she is 8 months old :)
and I can’t let her keep suckling until somthing comes out because when nothing comes out she bites me really hard

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I have to quit breastfeeding cold turkey, please help?

  • Posted on January 14, 2011 at 7:24 pm

My daughter is 11 months old and I have a terrible bacterial infection of the stomach, due to food poisoning. I had a CT today and they told me I would have to do a “pump and dump” for 24 hours. Then the MD came back and told me the only antibiotic I can take that will cover the entire scope of my illness is not recommended with breastfeeding and I would have to quit. Sophie is already drinking whole milk, so that’s not a problem….

Just wondering how to do this? Do I pump in place off for a few days and slowly wean, or do I just quit and take some antihistamines to help dry up?

Thanks…… feeling sad, wanted to do this until she was 1… :(

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Ladies, I need your help with a breastfeeding question…

  • Posted on December 3, 2010 at 3:24 pm

I am breastfeeding a 6.5 mth old baby girl and had some supply probs around 3 mths. All sorted and has been fine for the last 3 mths.

2 days ago I didn’t have enough milk to feed her one feed, now I don’t have any for any feeds. Even the night feeds when I normally have an abundance….I have none.

I know my boobs and my daughter and I know I’m empty. I’m not ill, I’ve been eating and drinking normally, I’m tired but that’s normal.

What could cause me to ‘dry up’ in 2 days flat?

Please help if you can, I don’t want to give her formula but will have to soon if this keeps up.

We have been given Isomil formula on script (just for emergencies) as she is a very allergic baby and comes out in massive hives if she has commercial formula.

(I know I’ve posted this this morning but I want to catch the other half of the world!)

Thanks in advance.
I would love to do a nursing holiday but with a 3 yr old too I think I’ll have to get out the disney dvds!
I’ve started up the fenugreek and blessed thistle combo which worked before so fingers crossed.

The reason I know I’m dry is difficult to explain……
I stopped feeling full at 3 wks ish so it’s not that. It’s that it doesn’t feel/sound the same when she nurses. I’ve breastfed before so I know my body and the sounds and feelings I get when my babies feed off a full boob, a not so full boob and an empty boob. I’m sorry, that’s a rubbish explaination but the best I can do! Lol

ps: she’s not uped her frequency so I’m pretty sure it’s not a growth spurt….I’m totally stumped.
last one!!

I’m still getting let down (in me, when it happens it almost painful so I know it’s still happening but the ‘free flow’ of milk lasts a very short time now, seconds rather than mins.

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If my breastfeeding baby is drinking too much water from a sippy cup, will that affect my milk supply?

  • Posted on October 24, 2010 at 7:25 am

My husband has been pushing the sippy cup on our eleven-month old daughter lately. He wants her to learn how to use it. One day he managed to give her almost 100 ml.
This is a baby who has breast fed exclusively up until a couple weeks ago when the sippy cup was introduced – so no bottles, no formula, not ever. So she is very unaccustomed to drinking from the cup.
I have not been helping my husband teach her how to use the sippy cup much however, because I am afraid that if she consumes too much water in a day, that she will drink less more the breast, and that my milk supply will, in turn, go down.
This is an issue right now because she has been having dry diapers from time to time lately. I don’t know if it is because she has been sick, or because my milk supply is down, or a combination of the two.
So, I am wondering if giving her sippy cup is a good idea, or if it could make the situation worse.

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Breastfeeding Question??

  • Posted on September 23, 2010 at 3:24 am

Ok so i know that nursing your baby is a supply and demand thing but with my last son i allowed my doctor to convince me that i needed to stop nursing so he could evaluate how much my son was eating while on antibiotics and when i tried to go back to nursing he wouldn’t take the breast(i think nipple confusion). I was wondering though because when i nursed my daughter i had to pump the day she was born cause i had so much milk i mean i was able to pump 8oz’s from each breast every 2hrs plus have no problems nursing her but with my son it was like i dried up like the sahara desert in no time, like 3 days.
I was wondering if there was any advice you could give to a nursing mom about keeping her supply up what would it be?
I’m gonna get a lot of ignorance to this next statement but with my daughter i drank half a beer every other day for 2 months straight cause someone said yeast in beer promotes breastmilk could that be why i had so much breastmilk with her and nothing with my son?
i’m 30 weeks pregnant now and worried when my son is born i won’t be able to provide enough milk for him. Just so everyone knows i don’t drink now and only had a small drink at new years.
my son was 1 month old when the doc told me to stop nursing him. The other problem i run into is because i have my babies by c-section the nurses at the hospital always try to get you to do the football hold which is sooo uncomfortable to me anyway and i found that once my son was latched on that way i couldn’t feed him the way i liked it, would i be wrong in just telling the nurses how i want to feed my new baby when he comes?

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I feel guilty for not breastfeeding?

  • Posted on September 12, 2010 at 3:20 am

Hi. I just want to say that I feel guilty. I had my daughter about 2 weeks ago and I am only feeding her breast milk through bottles. Im having an issue latching her on. PLUS I was taking prescription percocets out of this world after I gave birth. The nurses were feeding me those until I got out of the hospital. I’ve had PLENTY. IB Profen tablets every 4 hours, those were huge. Iron pills and prenatal vitemins and more percocet. I get home, and I am taking Aleve liquid gel tablets (3 a dose) BEFORE I happen to look on google @ how “unsafe” they are (I felt even more guilty) I was REALLY trying to look up “taking motrin while breastfeeding” because those Aleves were not really helping me anyway. I find that Motrin is safe because its “ib profen” or something. So I take about 4 round tablets a dose maybe 2 to 3 times a day. NOT to mention my UTI pills, I need to take one twice a day; And day by day its prenatals vitemins, UTI pills, Iron pills, I have taken Tylenol, and 800mg of IB Profen that I got from my grandmother. I took hydrocodone maybe 3 or 4 times since I’ve been home (hydrocode was prescribed to me in June 09′ when I had these MAJOR deadly migranes). I just saved them because I was 6 months pregnant I took maybe one or two back then. But now these could be real useful but I only took those when my after birth pain had me crying, and my bones felt shattered (literally). So if you added all of this up (which I didn’t).. it’ll be BAD for me to breastfeed. Hell I even smoked a blunt (marijuana) a few times since I’ve been out of the hospital I am telling you worse has come to worse with this pain. I had no idea this after birth would have me feeling like this these stitches in my vaginal hurt SO bad and I think I still feel the rips down there (TMI I apologize), but seriously. It has only been two weeks but I would feel even worse giving her my breast milk with all of these drugs in my system just to relieve pain. I don’t want to be “selfish” but I am taking care of a two week old as some “overly concerned” parent pretty much on my own and scared at the same time I have to be ontop of it when it comes to her; But I can’t do it while I’m in so much pain. I am required to move around alot. I’m doing this alone. OMG ! Im sorry .
“So what is my Question?” am I a bad parent to not breastfeeding her anymore? selfish? I’m not looking for an excuse. I just needed some where to vent. I can’t talk to anyone personally about this.

That’ll be all. Thanks.

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Why doesn’t the Child Protective Services consider a mother breastfeeding her baby while on Meth endangerment?

  • Posted on August 29, 2010 at 1:20 am

It has been reported that my daughter-in-law is breastfeeding her baby while on Meth the CPS has done nothing. She has tested positive for Meth. What are they waiting for my grandson to die?.

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Breastfeeding and pain medicine?

  • Posted on August 8, 2010 at 7:20 am

I just wanted some advice from other moms who have taken pain medicine while nursing. I pulled a muscle in my back and was perscribed percocet. Doctor said it was safe for my son who is breastfed. I still worry though. One time when i was nursing my older daughter i was perscribed a medicine for my gallbladder that the doctor said was safe and i later found out it would have been very toxic to daughter if i would have taken it. So i’m a little nervous to take this, anyone else taken it while nursing and did it affect your baby?

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