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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]MEDICATIONS WHILE NURSING RESOURCES

[url]https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK501922/[/url] 
The LactMed® database contains information on drugs and other chemicals to which breastfeeding mothers may be exposed. It includes information on the levels of such substances in breast milk and infant blood, and the possible adverse effects in the nursing infant. Suggested therapeutic alternatives to those drugs are provided, where appropriate. All data are derived from the scientific literature and fully referenced. A peer review panel reviews the data to assure scientific validity and currency.

[url]https://www.infantrisk.com/[/url]

he InfantRisk Center (IRC) is a world-wide call center presently in the Texas Tech University Health Sciences Center, School of Medicine, Department of Pediatrics, in Amarillo.

The InfantRisk Center is used by physicians, nurses, lactation consultants, and mothers in every part of the world. Virtually all calls are about multiple drugs, averaging 3-4 individual drugs. We do our best to help moms, lactation consultants, and doctors evaluate the risk to the infant from exposure to multiple drugs, and keep the mom breastfeeding.

Ask any of our staff, and they will tell you that this call center is a labor of love. We work every day to answer difficult and often unknown problems for our callers. But we are almost always able to find a way to help these desperate moms find a needed medication while pregnant or breastfeeding.

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Thank you so much for sharing these resources, though they are not really on topic for this thread. I am the person who said a therapist told me I couldn't use antidepressants while breastfeeding. I have not breastfed for 4 years, and am now on medication. Obviously, if I could go back in time, I would have sought out more information. Everyone has things they would do differently with the perspective of time and more information. But the people who provided the misinformation are absolutely at fault for giving me that misinformation.

The notion that breastfeeding was more important than my mental health did not emerge in a vacuum. I think it's sad that posters are choosing to hyperanalyze my choices while I was postpartum and lecturing me about what I should have done at the time, instead of discussing where that particular idea came from. But again, it's the MO of breastfeeding advocates to attack women when something goes wrong instead of recognize that there is a real problem that should be addressed.[/quote]

Nobody is 'hyperanalyzing' your choices. You have a victim mentality that is clearly not doing your mental health any favors. The PP provided a ton of good resources that you could use for a future pregnancy, or to help educate others-instead you told the PP that they weren't on topic. Way to crap on people who are trying to help you.[/quote]

I didn't ask for help. It's not wanted. I can't get pregnant again, not that it's any of your business. There is a reason giving unsolicited advice is generally frowned upon. I don't know why there are DCUM posters that literally can't comprehend that people don't always want advice. Read the damn room. OP didn't ask for advice either. Nobody is forcing you to post here.[/quote]

You literally solicited advice by posting here! If you post on a public forum, people will comment. You're just mad because everyone isn't completely agreeing with you. And you don't get to tell others if they can post or not-you're not allowed to police others' postings. You already had many of your posts removed by Jeff for violations.

You aren't going to bully me or anyone in this thread, regardless of your mental status.[/quote]

I don't care if you post here. I said nobody is forcing you to post here. But don't complain when people don't thank you for giving them advice that they didn't ask for. Posting on DCUM does not automatically mean a person is asking for advice. But I'm guessing you know this, but like to use your "advice" to try to bully people. You're not being kind and you absolutely know that.[/quote]

First off, Im the poster with the advice about nursing and pharm meds. The person you are responding to is a different PP.

I didnt post for YOU. I posted because its apparent that people are uneducated about pharmaceuticals and breastfeeding, so uneducated in fact that there are clinicians giving guidance outside of their scope and I posted so that if anyone looked up weaning or breastfeeding or medications while nursing that information might pop up. Because [u]someone else[/u] might need it. It wasnt about you to begin with.

The OP made a declaration about crazy breastfeeding people, of which, I agree there are some real zealots but by and large, you cant learn how to breastfeed or be supported in breastfeeding without breastfeeding advocacy to drive information being shared with individuals and the medical community. 
I am a breastfeeding advocate for women who WANT to breastfeed. I am a formula advocate for women who CANT or dont want to breastfeed.  Its a choice. But it must be an informed choice (just like understanding that some formulas are better for some allergies and hypoallergenic doesnt mean the entire protein is removed so may not work for all babies) and you arent always going to get all of the information you need from one source. So if posting that can help someone else, regardless of your feelings of it being unkind, then Ill post it. [/quote]

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