Tooth extraction

I am having a wisdom tooth extraction next week, I will be sedated and the procedure will take about an hour and a half. I have a four month old and I’m exclusively breastfeeding. In the consent form it says I shouldn’t breastfeed for eight hours and I should pump and dump.

I was wondering if any of you had a tooth extraction with sedation and are breastfeeding?

Can you tell me if you had to wait with breastfeeding? If not was the baby okay?

A lot of places say that I don’t have to wait and I can breastfeed as soon as I feel well enough. I have pumped some milk and kept it in the freezer, but I’m not sure if it’s enough and I don’t know if the baby will take the bottle.

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I would call up your dentist and talk to them about it. Find out what they are using that could be transferred through your milk, whether there are any alternatives etc. If you're sedated and there's a chance some of that can be passed on to baby I wouldn't personally want to take the risk. 8 hours seems like a long time but it's not too bad, I'd try baby on a couple of bottles in the lead up so you know what you might be dealing with. I've had a tooth extraction without sedation so that might also be an option, honestly it's not that bad, no worse than a filling really. So maybe that could be an option for you. Just talk to the experts about it because there could be people on here who have risked it and everything was fine but that doesn't mean it's the right thing to do, you know?

I’m a dental nurse trained in sedation. It can depend on what type of sedation you’re having. If you are having inhalation sedation then you’ll be fine to breastfeed but with intravenous sedation there isn’t enough research on on the effects it can have so it’s usually recommended to wait 6-24 hours after the procedure has finished. But it is best to talk to the dentist doing the procedure.

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