Is anyone out there on Anti depressants AND Breastfeeding

[Wills]

If so what are you on?

[purplemonkeydishwasher]

i'm on 20mg seroxat and have been for 5 months now.
it seems to work ok. i don't feel 100% but i feel a helluva lot better than i did.
i'm a militant BFer so if i had had to choose between the 2 it would have been BF. thankfully there were options.
have you talked to your GP?

[Wills]

Yes. I was doing fine - then my first period arrived and it felt like I'd gone mad over night. She feels that my hormones can't resettle and proposed Ad's for a few months to settle them. I had PND with my first child and had been on Efexor which worked brilliantly! BUt would entail stopping bfing. Whilst not a "militant" bfer I'm loathe to stop. ds is my 3rd and we were planning on more so this is my last chance and I don't want to stop.

[QuootieSpookypie]

not ADs, but I was on propronol (sp?) a beta blocker, now Diazepam.

[IdrisTheDragon]

I'm not breastfeeding now, but when I was I was taking sertraline. DD is fine .

[eenybeeny]

I'm on olanzapine and prozac and my Dr says both are fine.

[Trinityrhino]

I have been and will be again in february, I am taking Citalopram.

[Goldie]

Yes - sertraline. Have taken it while pg and b/f for 2 children now. Both fine!

[VeniVidiVickiQV]

Am taking 100 mcg of Sertraline and have been for 10 months. DS seems perfectly happy

[girlsAboysD]

I am taking Citalopram which works brilliantly for me and is really fast acting, but I do think that it affects dd a bit, so I am (after consulting the GP)taking half a 10mg tablet a day. It just stops me feeling as if I have spent the whole day dragging a juggernaut. My GP and I went through The "Medication in Mother's Milk" book by Thomas Hale. Sertraline is supposed to be OK as well, but My GP reckoned Citalopram was a more effective product, It certainly seems to work very quickly on me.