dr hale says: short acting benzodiazepine primarily used as an inducion or preanesthetic medication... in one study of 22 woman 15 mg midzolam given orally each evening produced no detectible level of midozalom sven hours after dose, even 5 days postpartum. midazolam disappears rapidly from milk with undectable levels after four hours. the authors suggest that waiting four hours after dosing would expose infant to mnimal midazolam. P