I have a very young mom-to-be (18 years old) with a heart condition. She is on "Sotalol (Endaral, sp?)" (her typing, not mine so I didn't make a typo - I think she said it was a beta-blocker), and she believes that this medication would kill her child in 3-5 minutes after nursing if she were to nurse while on this. She really wants to breastfeed, but her cardiac specialist has her scared to death (literally - he's the one that told her her baby's heart would slow to a stop within 3-5 minutes of breastfeeding). To me, this just seem 'too radical' of an effect from medications. She's on this medication now, pregnant, so the baby is getting it (I would assume anyhow) thru the placenta..... Since I don't have Hale's book, I was wondering if I could pick your collective minds. This woman is open to finding a way to nurse her child it sounds like, and I'd really like to be able to help her. If this medication really has that harmful of an effect with nursing, is there an alternate medication she might be able to consider switching to that would allow her to breastfeed? Thanx. -- Pauline M. Gabriel [log in to unmask] Breastfeeding supporter for all stages of a woman's life. :) http://groups.yahoo.com/group/first-time-nursing/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/extended_nursing/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ttcbreastfeeding/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/pregnant_nursing/ http://groups.yahoo.com/group/tnl/ *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html