>I am working with a client who may need to go on antidepressants. The doctor >suggested that she might have to stop breastfeeding. The mother is a health >care professional and states that breastfeeding is very important to her. > The baby is 9 months old. Need for the medication may not be long term. > Her depression appears tp be related to a situational crisis Hi Bonnie, Based on the small info given, in my professional opinion as a therapist I would suggest that she enlist the proper emotional/physical/spiritual/whatever help through the crisis, rather than to try and mask those important painful feelings with drugs. Quite often when drugs are used around a crisis, it merely postpones the working through and creates more difficulties later on. The risks of many of the drugs which may only be needed short-term can't compete with the benefits of the long-term benefits of long-term nursing (yes, I repeated that on purpose). While I am most definitely not opposed to appropriate psychotropic drug therapy, it is also often true that MDs are often a little too quick (IMHO) to prescribe when non-chemical help may be as effective or more so, much like the way they quickly jump to "You better try bottlefeeding instead". This opinion is null and void if there is information that causes this situation not to fit the basic premise! Nancy