Please help - drink spiked breastfeeding

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Hello,

On Friday I was out a festival. I only had one alcoholic drink and then drank soft drinks. I felt absolutely fine. I then came home and breastfed my 18 mo at about 11pm.
It was disclosed to me the next day that a “friend” had laced my drink with a ‘tiny bit’ of cocaine. I am now freaking out!!! My daughter seems fine & has been fine. I am so angry and upset and just can’t get over what has happened. I’m worried there will be some long term effects as her brain is still developing. I am scared to seek advice in fear that they will think I took the drug purposefully sad advice please. It’s been 48 hours now and she seems fine

Your friend is not a friend and quite frankly I'd report it. I'm pretty liberal about recreational drugs but that is fucking outrageous.

I would imagine that by this point your child will be ok but that isn't really the point now.

I'm sorry you've experienced this.

It's disgusting behaviour and she is not your friend.

Was she aware that you're still breastfeeding? Not that it matters, as she is a horrible human being for doing so.

Wow I have a relaxed attitude about recreational drugs but I would hit the roof and cut that "friend" off for good

Glad she's ok OP. LactMed report some frightening effects of cocaine but that's from more direct doses. I imagine if they've been ok for 48 hours then they'd be ok but may be worth a 111 if you are worried.

toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/search2

As for your 'friend'. Fucking absolute wanker.

I have directly spoken to my ‘friend’ and she replied with “oh I thought you said you were trying to wean her off”

Agree regardless of breastfeeding or not it is still completely unacceptable. I am so worried about my daughter that I’ll come to dealing with my
So called friend later

I don't think health care professional will judge you for having your drink spiked. It's totally worth getting her checked out and what an awful friend I would never see them again, or report them to the police!

Agee with pp re your 'friend' but am pretty positive you've nothing to worry about re: your baby. Virtually none (if any at all) of the cocaine will have made it into your breastmilk. Seriously. Your body makes the milk from your blood, it is not at all like a pregnant woman taking cocaine, which would go straight to placenta. For example, it's safe to have more than a couple of alcoholic drinks when breastfeeding (safety issues around drinking while breastfeeding relate to your ability to care for/ safely hold your baby and have nothing to do with alcohol in bm unless you drink a ridiculous amount). So please stop worrying about that. Obviously it is a bad idea to take cocaine while bf as a rule, but a once-off drink laced with cocaine should not impact your dd.

What an awful thing to go through! I hope you're OK Op. I think the fact you felt fine/hadn't noticed any effects is definitely a good sign, it must have been a tiny amount and then also has to pass through you. I doubt 111 would know much and probably issue you with a precautionary call back, I would suggest contacting the breastfeeding network - it's an amazing resource which has been set up by a pharmacist with extensive breastfeeding knowledge. I don't know the half life of cocaine, but if it's short then it is likely that it would have been out of your system/negligible by the time you fed. Take your dd to out of hours gp if you are at all worried

www.breastfeedingnetwork.org.uk/

Babies are very strong. if she seems fine its because she is. I im not sure that there is anything a health professional could or would do. Id have some serious words with the 'friend'.

I would actually involve the police as she has committed a criminal act. She is vile and not a friend.

Given that breastmilk isn't really affected by alcohol (unless you drink shitloads) and that you noticed no effects from the drug, I'd say it's unlikely that the baby will be affected by it. But I think the only way to put your mind at rest would be to seek medical advice.

Then - honestly? - I would report your friend to the police. I am very relaxed about drug use, but people who spike drinks are fucking criminals in my book.

If you didn’t even feel effected then it’s very unlikely that much if any had transferred to your baby.

Christ, that's bloody awful. As per pp I'd be tempted to involve the police just because I'd be so livid that my child was put at risk.

Do you have her admitting it in text messages,

Ps I reckon your toddler will be absolutely fine btw but I'd still be raging.

I was furious when a similar thing happened to me ai bf my dd 4 hours after being unknowingly spiked, my dd is fine (19 months) I was threw up such a stink when my stex told me that his mate had spiked me!,, bastard
Dd is now 22 months no I’ll effects

@nameisthegame were you also spiked with cocaine or was it something else? I am now doubting myself thinking did I actually feel fine, how much was actually in the drink etc etc

Wow, even the fact that she did this without you breastfeeding would be bad enough but to know you are breast feeding.
This person isn’t your friend. I would have nothing to do with them again and I’m pretty free and easy

Vile behaviour

Ditch your *friend... Sounds dangerous to be around

A former friend of mine willingly took cocaine while breastfeeding all three of her children. They're age 6+ now and medically fine.

(She's obviously a monster, and I didn't know this at the time. Am just using this example to reassure you that a baby could still be fine after exposure)

What are you going to do about your friend though?

@sizeofalentil thank you so much, that really has reassured me. There’s actually surprisingly minimal information online, only a couple of horror stories of heart attacks in the baby etc. I feel like we’re past that danger zone of short term damage now but I was more worried about long term. But that is so reassuring and of course at the same time horrible to hear!! Why not bottle feed?!

Pretty sure that's a criminal offence. You should absolutely never give a substance to anyone without their knowledge! Spiking drinks is a terrible thing to do. I'm sure baby is fine but jesus, that person is dreadful.

I'd be contacting the police too. Bloody disgusting.

I think drugs and alcohol only appears in breast milk in minute amounts.