Good luck in this battle. You will find that many, to include Hale base 
their info on legal and moral grounds. At my old hospital as i was leaving, 
the NICU docs and the peds were in a huge war with the CLE's and IBCLC on 
staff who wanted moms to pump and dump until there was a negative 
result...well THC is a highly fat soluable drug and therefore even with no 
new exposure a mother and baby can test positive for weeks to months after 
a singel exposure. I did read a Jamaica study where heavy use was examined 
and no ill effects were found with moms or babes.

You will no doubt get many emails talking about the parenting, 
etc...however we have to look at what would be worse, a bottle of formula 
or using moral reasoning to tell a mother not to feed her milk instead of 
scientific data. The one study that looked at small differences between 
kids has never been duplicated and there were plenty more that said 
different.

I know of many mothers who smoked here and there and we cautioned them 
about smoking around the children and not to bedshare. I believe New 
Zealand even has a handout on the use of THC and BF, I may have it still I 
will look...good luck to you!

Emily Lindsey, BSPsy, CLE
Private Practice
Merced, ca

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