OK soo I am in need of some advice... my sister was breastfeeding her sone but had to go to the emergancy room the other night due to severe shoulder pain come to find out she was just having severe muscle spasms and the doctor proscribed her flexareal which is a muscle relaxer and vicoden and told her that she absolutely could not breast feed while on these medications... well her husband researched and said that they said the effects of an infant breastfeeding while the mother was taking the flexareal and it causeing any harm to the baby was inconclusive and that the with the perscribed amount of vicoden it isn't strong enough to make its way into the breast milk... well she asked me earlier if i would help her pump so she could have some bottles made and when i said no i refuse because i don't find it right because the medications you are taking and how you were told not to breast feed and she said that it is her choice it is her baby that i should just help her and got really upset and mad and is now refusing to talk to me... was i in the wrong should i have helped her?? i just don't see it healthy or right subjecting an innocent child to that if you were told not to do it... advice please!!!
I was told it depends on the medication. I had percocet and ibuprofin after c-section and the Dr's were okay with me BFing. And I was taking 2 percocet every 4 hours and a large amount of ibuprofin every 6 hours (per the dr/nurse's order) and a week after I was on a blood pressure med after having eclamptic seizures and they still said I was fine to bf.
But your not wrong in not helping her if you feel this isn't right.
You did the right thing in standing up in what you believe in, that could be very harmful to the baby. I am also wondering why the dr would tell her to take something that she could not continue to breast feed while on. Is she really committed to bfing? could she just tough it out so she could still safely nurse?
How far is too far???
- Trixie1313
on Oct. 24, 2012 at 5:38 PM