Episode 40 Can I Take This? Medication in Human Milk, A Guide

As you embark on the incredible (and sometimes daunting) journey of nursing your baby, you’ll get a lot of conflicting advice. You’ll also find that different sources will often give you completely different information.For example, when it comes to taking medication or undergoing a routine medical procedure, parents are regularly told by medical professionals that they should stop breastfeeding or ‘pump and dump’, even when the research doesn’t always indicate that this is necessary.There are a lot of misconceptions out there about nursing and medication, and it can sometimes be difficult to separate fact from fiction. This is why we are discussing this important topic in today’s episode of The Milk Making Minutes!Tune in as we share reliable resources, best practices, and comprehensive details about drug classifications to help you weigh up the risks.We hope you’ll take this information into account and share it with your medical professionals to help educate them as you make the decision that is best for you and your baby!Topics discussed in this episode:

• Resources that the InfantRisk Center offers parents
• Using the LactMed Database to determine if a medication is safe
• A look at Dr. Thomas Hale’s drug classification system
• 5 ways that researchers make these classifications
• Making decisions based on facts, not fear!

Resources Mentioned:InfantRisk Center ResourcesHale's Medications & Mothers' MilkInfantRisk ‘Warmline’: 1(806) 352-2519Drugs and Lactation Database (LactMed)Head to Apple Podcasts or Spotify for more episodes!Join The Milk Making Minutes Facebook Group to talk about the structural barriers that make breastfeeding so difficult and work together to chip away at each one.To get individualized lactation support from me, Lo, go here.To buy books about pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding, and parenting, and to support the show while doing it, go to my bookshop!

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