If you don't have Tom Hale's book, "Medications and Mother's Milk", you
should get it - it covers just about everything!
Here's a link to Dr. Hale's website:
 <<Breastfeeding Pharmacology.url>>

Lori Salisbury, RN, IBCLC
Hospital based LC
                -----Original Message-----
                From:   Betsy Riedel [mailto:[log in to unmask]]
                Sent:   Friday, September 08, 2000 7:40 AM
                To:     [log in to unmask]
                Subject:        Anesthesia and breastfeeding

                We have one anesthesiologist that tells mothers they can NOT
breastfeed after
                general anesthesia (he never writes a order: just says this
when he leaves
                the room). We're talking a short tubal ligation procedure.
Once when I asked
                him why he said this, he responded that it was an "old
thing" and it really
                didn't matter. He did this again yesterday. The literature I
have seen (not
                too much) seems to see no problem with nursing as soon as
Mom is able. My
                feeling is that if this guy is going to say this, HE should
be the one to
                back up his request with a citation or two. We nurses should
not be the ones
                to feel compelled to pull out all the stops.

                Does anyone have a citation that refutes the idea that one
can not breastfeed
                after general anesthesia? Could you e-mail me, please?
Thanks in advcance,
                you all!
                Thanks,
                Betsy R. L&D RNC,CLC

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