We Can Help You as You Support Lactating Patients MotherToBaby supports lactation consultants as they help patients achieve their breastfeeding goals. People who are planning to breastfeed and newly postpartum parents often have a litany of questions about how best to meet their nursing baby’s needs – and some of those questions may center on how a breastfeeding person’s exposures could impact their baby. Examples of such exposures could include but are not limited to medications that a …
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Baby Blog: Can Moms Who Had a Transplant Breastfeed While Taking Tacrolimus?
By LauraAnne Hirschler, BS, OMS4 with help from Casey Rosen-Carole, MD, MPH, MSEd, FABM and Rogelio Perez-D’Gregorio, MD, MS As an infant, I received the gift of life in the form of a liver transplant. Growing up, I remember taking a multitude of medications that just became part of my daily life. As the years went on, my immune system became stronger, the transplant check-ups became farther and farther in between. As the years went by, I found myself taking an extremely low dose of one …
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We Can Help You and Your Pregnant and Lactating Patients Make Informed Decisions Internists play a vital role in providing comprehensive care to people who are or may become pregnant or who are breastfeeding. Here at MotherToBaby, we understand the challenges that you face when deciding on treatment courses when your patient is pregnant or lactating. No matter if your patient has hypertension or diabetes, depression or anxiety, digestive problems or respiratory problems, our resources will …
Baby Blog: Alcohol: Be ‘In The Know’ If Nursing Baby
By Chris Colón, Certified Genetic Counselor at MotherToBaby Arizona During pregnancy, many women make changes in their lives in order to have the best chance to have a healthy baby. I know I did during both of my pregnancies. These changes can involve their diet, exercise habits and other lifestyle factors. After birth, new moms may consider adding back some of the things they cut out over the last 9 months, including drinking alcohol. But is adding it back in that simple? During September’s …
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