Judy
Case study: but in the last 2 weeks we had a patient deliever who was on
Buspar (buspirone) during her pregnancy and she started breastfeeding right
after delivery (no pumping and dumping). Baby is breastfeeding well and
gaining and mom is happy.
I gave the OB and the patient information from Hales book which says they
have not data on the excretion into breastmilk. the drug does have a
rather short half life 4.8 hrs.
I discussed with the patient about changing to Zoloft(sertraline) and said
we do have some data on Zoloft and breastmilk. But this mother had been on
numerous anti-depressants without much success and buspar helped her so
she was relucent to change.
Jan Aken Rn IBCLC
Seattle Area where it is cloudy today
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