phenytoin in breast feeding

Bottles can interfere with breast feeding. I'm due ina few weeks and I'm already stressing about breast feeding in public. Sounds like you are discrete though. I don't think there's much you can do unless you are really worried and do use a bottle.

As long as your not making a big deal about it and not making a scene because your breast feeding in public then go on and do it! But the other day I was at the mall with my mother in law and sister in law and we were walking around this store. Everything fine were talking looking at clothes and there is a lady breast feeding. Well her baby unlatched and she said "awe your all done sweetie.... You must still be hungry but I'll leave it right here if you want more" the.

is the discharge liquid normal for a mother who only got 4 months of breast feeding? do mother who breast feed got breast cancer if they stop breast feeding?

I then did a combination of putting him to the breast at every feeding, then feeding him a bottle of formula while I pumped. I kept this up until 6 weeks, then he just began refusing to eat from the breast...I think it's because he got so tired of me continually trying to latch him on properly that he got too frustrated and would just scream & cry. I then strictly pumped and supplemented with formula until 10 weeks, when I couldn't keep it up anymore do to my schedule.

Good Luck with breast feeding. I failed to with my daughter. But hoping to try again this pregnancy.

Breast feeding is better both for you and the baby. Also formula is expensive and babies from my personal experiences tend to be crankier and cry more. Everyone has their own perferences. Try it out and if it dont work for you then it didnt work.

Okay - Who is breast feeding and who is bottle feeding? I think I am going to breast feed for a few months (have to go back to work after 8 weeks) and then I might pump for 1 month at work, then gradually make the switch to formula. My sister breast-fed her little one until she was one. She did not pump - she just sumplemented with formula while she was working, which is an option too.

I breast fed, and really had no choice but to do it in public. It was either that or never leave the house. If there was a nursing room or a mothers room available, that's what I did, but otherwise..you can't ignore a screaming hungry baby. I was discreet about it though. I used a smock (there are literally hundreds of brands of breastfeeding smocks/aprons out there)..I'm a bit too conservative for anything else. I only had someone chastise me about it once or twice...

Ya know, lots of women become nervous about breast feeding. In truth, babies come out instinctively knowing what to do. They are ready to go. It's a pretty natural process. Some women do have trouble and some babies do latch on incorrectly, but a lactation specialist works with you IN the hospital to kind of get things going smoothly before you go home from the hospital. And if it doesn't work out, lots and lots of women do bottle feed with healthy and happy babies. Just think .

In a small study, phenytoin-induced seizures occurred most often in patients with serum phenytoin concentrations of 50 mcg/ml or higher.[393] Peripheral neuropathy, usually occurring weeks to months after drug initiation, has also been reported in patients receiving phenytoin. A single case report describes the onset of neuropathy within a few hours of drug administration.[9780] Adverse GI effects of phenytoin therapy include nausea/vomiting, constipation, abdominal pain, and anorexia.

I choose to breast feed because that is what is best for baby, it is a wonderful bonding experience, and it is free!

Have any of you mommies feed your babies both breast milk & formula at the same time ? How did it work for you ?

I was once scalded for feeding my baby at the table in a restaurant, told I should be feeding her in the toilets. I responded that if my feeding my child offended her, she was welcome to take her meal and sit on the toilet to eat it but that my daughter and I were perfectly comfortable eating where we were.

Can you switch on and off with breast feeding? Like if someone was watching him could they feed him formula and I feed him breast milk?

Folic acid supplementation in folate-deficient patients with epilepsy changes the pharmacokinetics of phenytoin, usually leading to lower serum phenytoin concentrations and possible seizure breakthrough..." It however says that initiation of Folic acid and phenytoin together is beneficial. Since you can't go back and start all over again, you can take a small dose. It has been observed that as los as 1mg dose can perturb phenytoin’s levels, You may take doses lower than 1mg/day.

I am fully breast feeding my two year old son he is 100% depend it on breast feeding and now I am writing seeking professional advice, I have not gotten my period in 2 year, and I was trying for my second baby, but no success. Can some one give me good advice?

I think it possibly the breast feeding, and hormonal, next time you go ask the doctor if its still okay. and for advice .I am sure it will ease off as she gets older.

So, my last purchase is going to be a breast pump so that I can continue to breastfeed even if it is served in a bottle by day and ala carte at night.

Ok so a friend of mine basically started a debate on Facebook bout breast feeding in public and in front of your other children! Obviously everyone has there own opinions bout it and mine is as long as you do it in a modest manor in public there is nothing wrong with it! And as far as around your others children I did that without even thinking bout it and it became a part of our everyday life and no more thought anymore bout it mommy was feeding the baby that was it!

Ok I have a 3 year old. I tried breast Feeding her but she never could latch on so I pumped it. I'll he 30 weeks pregnant tuesday. I Def want to keep breast Feeding as I feel it's the best thing ever. My big question is how do you know if the baby is getting enough? And someone said you change breast like they will eat from one breast for so long then the other. Also if I get the freezer bags to freeze my milk because I tend to carry a lot of milk.

hi mums id like some insight here im 20 weeks and im going to breast feed when the milk comes out its warm right? so once expressed and put in fridge can u warm up breast milk or do they have it cold and how do u go about doing this? sorry if u think i should know this its just this is my first child so i dont know what to expect.

Hi! I'm 25 weeks pregnant. And my breast have not in larged at all. I'm wondering if that means I won't produce enough milk. Anyone with experience?

Using lanolin products helps so much with this, keep applying it constantly at first will help with the success, apply after probably each feeding. Your supply comes in after 2-5 days, mine started to come in the 2nd day and was fully in by the 4th day. You just have to make sure to feed them each time they want to eat, don't try to really give formula either because that will dwindled your supply since your body doesn't recognize you needing that supply to come in.

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