Everytime I go away from Lactnet being busy with life, work, school,
whatever...something comes along that makes me have to pop back in.
Then I get started reading all the missed posts! I have to stop myself
from replying so I don't start living in Lactnet where my mind is
happy and gathering so much information.

I have a mother who has epilepsy.  I am not seeing her until today, so
do not know all her meds yet.  However, what she has been told by her
neurologist is she cannot breastfeed at night or care for her baby at
night.  That the lack of sleep will cause seizures.  Since we know
breastfeeding is not the same as bottle feeding for the maternal sleep
patterns, is it possible that she could actually breastfeed at night
without causing the disruption in sleep that the doctor is worried
about?  Dad said mom had a siezure in the hospital due to lack of
sleep, however, after hours of labor and lack of sleep related to
interruptions in the hospital on top of that, the comparison does not
seem to me to be the same thing.  For now, they are focusing on mom
breastfeeding until she goes to bed at night, letting Dad do the night
feedings for 6 hours, mom waking to pump for 15 minutes and then go
back to sleep.  She doesn't want to breastfeed because it takes longer
and she is afraid to be awake.  Not even sure the 6 hours will be long
enough yet, but she will know in a few days.

I searched Lactnet archives and cannot find much about epilepsy at
all, let alone how breastfeeding affects it, sleep, etc.  Anyone with
information, please share and if there is specific research I can
share with parents, please pass along that also.  If possible, can you
send a private reply also.

Thank you,
Pam MazzellaDiBosco, IBCLC, RLC

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