methadone newborn

Opioid medications (such as morphine, fentanyl, and sometime methadone) are often given to newborn infants, including extremely premature infants, to help control pain and discomfort. Depending upon the situation, one drug may be preferred over another. This class of pain medications has a very long history of safe use in premature infants.

how long does meth stay in a newborn babies melacoma? What are the laws that allow California CWS(child welfare services) to test a newborn if the Mother tested clean?

You should never try to w/d off the methadone while pregnant more harm will come out of it than with taking the methadone.

Tramadol may cause life-threatening addiction and withdrawal symptoms in a newborn.

Has anyone been through testing baby simply because your on methadone?

Is it better to decrease your methadone intake as much as poss during pregnancy - and also how much more dangeous is it to inject ampoules than taking methadone pills, on the foetus?

im 25 wks preg and on methadone maintnance .(59 mg) if baby is born with methadone in her system what meds are given? how long does she stay in hospital? do i have a say so on what meds are offered? should i breastfeed since im going to taper right after birth? thanks for any info.would also love love love to hear others birthing after methadone stories. any body have a baby drug free?

I work at a MMT clinic (methadone maintenance) and we have had pregnant women on methadone who have delivered perfectly healthy babies. Difference b/w methadone and other opiates is that on a stable dose (which differs for everyone), a pregnant woman (or any individual) is able to go 24 to 36 hours without having ANY physical withdrawals whereas with heroin and other opiates, the half-life is 4 to 6 hours so the individual experiences withdrawals unless they continuously use.

after some time he was given methadone to come off the morphine. he came home from the hosp on feb 19th and had been off the methadone about a couple days. he has crying episodes and seems in pain. his mom called the nurses who told her he could be having withdrawal. no one told us about any of this when he was discharged. not sure how to help our little man and how long to expect this. any help?

Im currently 35 weeks pregnant,i have been on methadone for 12 months now with no opiate relapses.

She is pregnant for the third time and is presently on supposedly low dose of methadone. I believe she is on something else like Xanax and other drugs that I am unaware of. What effects will this have on her newborn that is expected to be born on January 5th?

Thanks pattifan, I definitely do not want to use methadone ,I have seen what a withdrawing newborn looks like and I am determined to deliver drug free I am just trying to find a way to get off this drug without harming my unborn child, the tapering idea is sounds like the best thing to do but I dont know how to do it exactly, not sure how much to taper off each day, its confusing! And on top off all this I have to stand at computer all day for 8 hours at work.

Hi, If you take your prescribed dose (they might even raise you) & don't use anything else or drink, your baby should be fine as Methadone is considered "relatively safe" during pregnancy. Like Gnarly, above, I've seen many healthy babies born on M'done. They will probably keep the baby in neonatal for observation for Neonatal Abstinence Syndrome.

yes i do blame myself to) Yes, the same routine happened between us again where i was subjected to his abuse as well as my newborn. Needless to say, i put him back in jail & because of his extensive record it put him in prison, followed by a restaining order. Im sooo exhausted of this. Seems how he was able to get off of roxies w/out a problem because he's in jail, (they now have stuff to knock U out while U w/drawl) im left in turmoil.

I have been trying everything to prevent going on methadone. I am 13 weeks pregnant and tried 3 times now to detox and I get lower back pain and bad cramps in my lower stomach along with all the other not so nice symtoms!! I don't know if that's a part of with drawl or if its my body telling me my baby is not tolerated the detox.

hi my name is jinna, i am currently 8month's pregnant with a lil'-girl, my question is, i am currently taking 10mg's of methadone in the am and 10mg's in the pm, my will my baby have withdrawl effects when she is born, or is it safe to possibly get off before he due date wich is feb-2....

Hi Mlin, I'm using someone else's post, mine is Tallullah73. I am in a similar situation to yourself. I am 26 weeks pregnant on Wednesday and I fell pregnant while on Methadone as a maintenance treatment for an opiate addiction. Subutex, which I have used in the past as a means to withdraw from heroin, and am now using methadone as a long-term treatment.

hi all. i have a family member, or should i say members who are taking methadone daily. one of which is 19 years old and has been on it for almost a year or more (her sister n law signed for her to get into the clinic because she was under age, isnt that illegal? her parents are alive so her sister n law shouldnt have been able to do that) anyways, she gave birth to a little girl in june.

Congrats on your upcoming nuptials and your pregnancy! I had a healthy baby boy and was on methadone during my pregnancy. I think I was at around 100mg when I got pregnant and my nurse increased my dose to almost 300mg throughout my pregnancy, telling me it's likely I could lose my baby if he/we go into w/d. CRAZY right? Well. I knew my own body and didn't take anywhere near that much.

My son is so depressed and scared of the withdraw of Methadone, he wants OFF it and wants to taper off because him and his wife have a newborn son and a 3 year old daughter to take care of. he is on at least 6 to 8 pills a day and I need your advise as to how to bring him down slowly, I looked up the Thomas Recipe and printed it out for him, He is so scared and afraid to talk to his doctor who got him on this in the first place. I dont know what to do.

Apparently, the dose I was on at the time we met (120 mgs of methadone/24 hours) had about a 50-60% chance of causing habituation in a newborn. Now I am on 60 mgs of methadone a day. I did have to stop taking ativan (which I took for sleep) and I had to stop taking nortriptyline (for nerve pain). The nortriptyline, especially, can interfere with limb development. My pain is also caused by ruptured discs.

I'm 31-32 weeks pregnant and I'm on methadone 32mg. A day. My reg. Doctor and my OB knows I'am on methadone and I have been very honest so my baby gets the help it needs when I give birth. But my question is after my baby is born ( I'm getting a C-Section) and even though all doctors know everything that I'm going through, will the hospital report me to CPS? I know from talking to my OB that my son will be put on some type of meds.

•Prematurity •Lowerbirthweight, shorter •Smaller head circumference •A piercing cry, which is apparently indicative of neurological dysfunction •Lower Apgar score •Irritability and hypersensitivity. The newborn shoots from sleep to screaming and is inconsolable.

I DON'T HAVE ANY ANSWERS FOR U&I JUST WANTED2SAY.IM.SORRY UR HAVING SUCH HARD TIME FINDING a HELPFUL DOCTOR!!!bein a pregnant opiate addict myself i can relate-i am from Massachusetts&am on methadone myself(4th child&1st on methadone).i posted ?on drug testing newborns 1st.stool(mecomium)cuz i relapsed once@26wks&know.my BABY WILL b TESTED CUZ ON METHADONE&IM FREAKIN OUT CUZ OF MY ONE MISTAKE AFRAID OF THEM TAKIN MY NEWBORN N MY.OTHER 3KIDS AWAY CUZ.OF.

I'm 5 weeks and need to know what I can take for pain. Lortab methadone what?

Consider reading my long comments about withdrawal in newborns here: http://suboxonetalkzone.com/2010/02/01/withdrawal-in-newborns-lay-off-the-guilt-trip/ If you can taper off the opioids, do so-- slowly, at a rate that you work out with your doc. If you cannot do that, seek the help of an addiction doc.

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