to stop or not to stop

Anne Rogers writes:
: I'm about to start a course of sertraline (Zoloft), if it works for my PND
: I'll probably take it for a year. I've been told that though this has a
: minimum risk for breastfeeding that as I have given him the benfit of 6
: months breastfeeding and now would be the time to stop. What do people
: think?

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: Anne Rogers

Zoloft is L2. The benefits of breastfeeding FAR outweigh the minimal
risks of his getting any in his milk. I would strongly recommend against
stopping!

Larry

Zoloft is L2. The benefits of breastfeeding FAR outweigh the minimal
risks of his getting any in his milk. I would strongly recommend against
stopping!
Thanks for saying that, I felt shot down today when I said I thought the
benefits outweighed the disadvantages, I think I'm just going to take it
that the person who said this is against breastfeeding for some reason,
for me I know its best for baby, plus I love to feed him so its important
for bonding too.

LOL. A sister is like a Head nurse type in the UK!!
"Bruce and Jeanne" wrote in message
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Anne Rogers wrote:

I'm about to start a course of sertraline (Zoloft), if it works for
my PND
I'll probably take it for a year. I've been told that though this
has a
minimum risk for breastfeeding that as I have given him the benfit
of 6
months breastfeeding and now would be the time to stop. What do
people
think?


I think you're getting poor advice, (sort of like my dr when he rx'd
Zoloft and told me to wean *in case* I had to change or increase meds)
Zoloft is FINE to nurse will taking. Why not give hte benefit of a
year
of breastfeeding???

That's what I thought, the consultant was happy for me to make my own
choice (which is to continue breastfeeding) but the sister seemed to
have
a really downer on me continuing to breastfeed and kept quoting vague
bits
of research saying how bad it was, though I wonder how much of the bad
things would be because the mum is depressed not because the mum is
taking
meds.


Whose sister? The consultant's or yours? If the consultant is fine
with Zoloft and you want to continue breastfeeding, then it seems like a
perfect match to me!

Jeanne

Anne Rogers wrote:

Zoloft is L2. The benefits of breastfeeding FAR outweigh the minimal
risks of his getting any in his milk. I would strongly recommend against
stopping!
Thanks for saying that, I felt shot down today when I said I thought the
benefits outweighed the disadvantages, I think I'm just going to take it
that the person who said this is against breastfeeding for some reason,
for me I know its best for baby, plus I love to feed him so its important
for bonding too.

Who shot you down? It wasn't any of the posters in this thread. I read
all the responses, and I noticed that they all opined that you could
take Zoloft and continue nursing. Or, did you get one negative response
among many positive ones? Why focus on that?

Good luck,
-Patty, mom to Corinne [Mar-98] and Nathan [May-00]
and stepmom to Victoria [Apr-90]

Thanks for saying that, I felt shot down today when I said I thought the
benefits outweighed the disadvantages, I think I'm just going to take it
that the person who said this is against breastfeeding for some reason,
for me I know its best for baby, plus I love to feed him so its important
for bonding too.

Who shot you down? It wasn't any of the posters in this thread. I read
all the responses, and I noticed that they all opined that you could
take Zoloft and continue nursing. Or, did you get one negative response
among many positive ones? Why focus on that?

you mis read me, I meant I felt shot down by the sister at the hospital,
she seemed to have a real downer on me and basically told me to quit
breastfeeding, I was saying thank you for the positive responses on here,
given that I had had a very negative experience at the hospital

"Anne Rogers" wrote in message
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Thanks for saying that, I felt shot down today when I said I thought
the
benefits outweighed the disadvantages, I think I'm just going to take
it
that the person who said this is against breastfeeding for some
reason,
for me I know its best for baby, plus I love to feed him so its
important
for bonding too.

Who shot you down? It wasn't any of the posters in this thread. I read
all the responses, and I noticed that they all opined that you could
take Zoloft and continue nursing. Or, did you get one negative response
among many positive ones? Why focus on that?

you mis read me, I meant I felt shot down by the sister at the hospital,
she seemed to have a real downer on me and basically told me to quit
breastfeeding, I was saying thank you for the positive responses on here,
given that I had had a very negative experience at the hospital


Yeah, I know how it is. I had a FEMALE MD tell me to wean my son so she
could prescribe me cough medicine and BCPs. She said I was "too young" for
a diapragm and that at 6 months my son wasnt getting anything out of nursing
"he is just playing with it" and to come back after he was weaned to get a
scrip for the pill.. I was upset beyond belief and ended up getting the
pediatrician to prescribe me something for my cough.
But this woman had me in a state, I was just about in tears and ready to get
her fired by the time I left.

"Nina" :

Yeah, I know how it is. I had a FEMALE MD tell me to wean my son so she
could prescribe me cough medicine and BCPs. She said I was "too young"
for
a diapragm

Phhhhhhhht! What kind of advice is THAT? When did a diaphragm become an
'old ladies' contraceptive'?! What a STRANGE thing to say.

I also had my female Dr tell me "Goodness it's about time you weaned her
really isn't it?" when I told her I was bfing at 10 months. I was so
surprised I didn't respond.

ROSIE
(proud diaphragm user since age 19)

"Rosie" skrev i en meddelelse
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"Nina" :

Yeah, I know how it is. I had a FEMALE MD tell me to wean my son so she
could prescribe me cough medicine and BCPs. She said I was "too young"
for
a diapragm

Phhhhhhhht! What kind of advice is THAT? When did a diaphragm become an
'old ladies' contraceptive'?! What a STRANGE thing to say.

I also had my female Dr tell me "Goodness it's about time you weaned her
really isn't it?" when I told her I was bfing at 10 months. I was so
surprised I didn't respond.

ROSIE
(proud diaphragm user since age 19)

"Rosie" skrev i en meddelelse
...
"Nina" :

Yeah, I know how it is. I had a FEMALE MD tell me to wean my son so she
could prescribe me cough medicine and BCPs. She said I was "too young"
for
a diapragm

Phhhhhhhht! What kind of advice is THAT? When did a diaphragm become an
'old ladies' contraceptive'?! What a STRANGE thing to say.

I also had my female Dr tell me "Goodness it's about time you weaned her
really isn't it?" when I told her I was bfing at 10 months. I was so
surprised I didn't respond.

ROSIE
(proud diaphragm user since age 19)

What is a diaphragm?

Tine, Denmark

"Rosie" wrote in message
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"Nina" :

Yeah, I know how it is. I had a FEMALE MD tell me to wean my son so she
could prescribe me cough medicine and BCPs. She said I was "too young"
for
a diapragm

Phhhhhhhht! What kind of advice is THAT? When did a diaphragm become an
'old ladies' contraceptive'?! What a STRANGE thing to say.

Said I was too young, that young people had sex spontaneously and the pill
would be better. Iw as offended. I made a complaint that because of my race,
age and because my husband was military, that she assumed I was some young
stupid girl married to a GI and that I didnt have the sense to know how to
use a diaphragm and that I was too ignorant to know about breastfeeding. If
I had been white and my husband an officer, she would have most likely NOT
said that, because she'd haev assumed I was educated enough to know better.

I also had my female Dr tell me "Goodness it's about time you weaned her
really isn't it?" when I told her I was bfing at 10 months. I was so
surprised I didn't respond.

I only listen to the pediatricians as far as breastfeeding is concerned.
I have a friend getting her PhD in psychology or counseling, She says women
who breastfeed after a certain age (not sure what age) do it because they
are getting someting out of it, and that some women have orgasms while
nursing. So no matter what degrees they may have, people have their biases
and pesonal opinions.