When You Should Not Breastfeed
The number one reason a person shouldn't breastfeed is drug abuse while breastfeeding. The same reason you shouldn't abuse drugs, alcohol, or tobacco while pregnant applies to breastfeeding as well. This is very dangerous to your baby. You have heard of crack babies, this can happen to a baby when breastfeeding too. Even alcohol can harm your baby while breastfeeding, I think most parents would prefer the first time there child experiments with alcohol is when they are 21. The same goes for tobacco as well. Although the consequences for smoking is not as harmful as drugs and alcohol, your baby would be getting the same chemicals that you inhale, but through your breast milk. It's basically like having your precious little baby drink poison.
If you take some long term medications that can be expressed through breast milk, it is best not to breastfeed. You and your doctors have no ideas what the effects of baby taking your medicine might be. You should never take medication unless you need it, so don't feed your baby any unwanted medications. This can be very harmful. Only your doctor knows what medications are safe for your baby. So if you are taking medication be sure to let your doctor know.
If you are diagnosed with HIV or the AIDS virus you must not breastfeed. If baby doesn't already have HIV, breast milk is one of the ways that HIV can be passed on. Also if you have another illness such as Tuberculosis, or Hepatitis B you should not breastfeed. Only your doctor can tell you weather you can or can't breastfeed with these conditions.
If you are underweight or you have a illness such as heart or kidney disease, or if you have anemia, you should not breastfeed. Again your doctor will let you know if you can breastfeed or not.
Sometimes a baby can not breastfeed because of an abnormality such as a cleft lip or a cleft palette. This makes it nearly impossible for your baby to suck therefore having to get nutrition another way.
Don't worry if you can't breastfeed, millions of babies have thrived on formula. You can make having a bottle a very loving experience for you and your baby.
Published by Brooke Schuman
I am a full time, single mother of a 2 year old little boy. I work part-time in retail and part-time on my website. View profile
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3 Comments
Post a CommentAlcohol is out of your system within 3 hours. Moms can have a glass of wine or a drink and still breastfeed
And doctors do know if your medication will pass through your breastmilk and harm your baby. They will ask specifically so to encourage someone not to breastfeed just based on that is ridiculous
no its not ok to drink and breastfeed its called being a goodmother
Actually, a lot of your information is inaccurate. For one, moderate alcohol intake while breastfeeding has been shown to be OK--in fact, some beers are galactagogues, which is to say they increase milk production. Further, it is far better for the baby of a smoking mother to be breastfed, as the milk actually provides some protection against the nicotine and other chemicals the baby is otherwise exposed to through secondhand smoke. Moreover, many, many medications are perfectly fine to take--even long-term--while breastfeeding. A copy of Breastfeeding Pharmacology by Thomas Hale, is the proper consultation, not necessarily a pediatrician who is probably ill-informed. In addition, to say that underweight, heart disease (where on Earth did you get that one from?), and anemia are NOT reasons to use formula instead of breastmilk. Please, do some research next time before you publish an article like this.