Feeling guilty about breastfeeding and smoking
Hey, I’m a FTM of a beautiful girl born in April. I’ve been exclusively breast-feeding/pumping for the last two months and I just started smoking again. I used to be the type of person that always had a quarter and at least two carts in my possession, but since I got pregnant, I obviously had to quit for the time being, and that was the longest time that I had taken a break. I was doing OK without it, but I still kind of missed smoking and one night me and my husband smoked with a couple of friends for my first time since having the baby. Ever since that day, I have smoked once a day. While I was high, I was googling different research on use of cannabis and breast-feeding and it kept coming up how it can be related to SIDS and I got freaked out. I don’t want to formula feed because I’m able to produce enough milk that she is well fed and I don’t want to have to spend the money on formula. I am also really picky so I know I would want to choose the most healthiest and organic formula even though I know Enfamil and Similac are good. Has any other mama gone through the guilt of wanting to smoke and also not stop breast-feeding? I only smoke once a day and it’s usually at night time after she goes to bed , but it does leave me a bit more groggy the next morning.
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In my personal opinion and experience, I feel that it is perfectly safe to partake & breastfeed.
If a dr can prescribe painkillers and still find it safe for a mother to breastfeed, then I think Mary Jane is just as appropriate, but safer bc it’s natures medicine. People demonize weed, but it has so many benefits. Rather you’re using it to cope through PPD, or you use it to calm your mind and body, that’s your business and I see it as a tool. Such small increments pass through that it has no effect on infants. There isn’t enough research on this topic, but I have known so many moms that smoked while bf and their kids are healthy, smart, and thriving.
As long as you always change clothes, wash your hands, and brush your teeth so the smell doesn’t linger, you’re good mama.
I read that weed does pass through to breastmilk and unlike alcohol which passes relatively quickly, weed will stay in your system for days and sometimes weeks because it's fat soluble. Not trying to shame just educate. Please read some more about this it speak to Dr or lactation consultant. Our bodies process things differently, meds gets absorbed in different ways. This is why there are ones safe and not safe during pregnant and breastfeeding
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