Do I NEED to stop breastfeeding to take AD's?

[lua]

Wise Mners,
I am considering taking ADs, however I reaaaaaly don't want to stop breastfeeding. GP tells me I should take at night and skip morning bf. I researched actual data and seems to be all over the place...
Can anyone point to a good source of data?

Also, anyone out there had to make this decision? How did you sorted out????

Tik Tok, thanks for the link. I have seen that paper but I find it hard to interpret.
I don't understand why would they not detect in baby's plasma, if it was present in the mother's milk.... Do you know anything about baby's physiology that could explain that? I just keep worrying that it was just a fault on the design of the experiment...

MMH, and surfermum indeed!
I can understand that it is unethical to expose babies to drug to research, but given the frequency with which ADs seems to be prescribed, it shouldn't be that hard to get good data and information, sholuldn't it?!

Thanks all for the support! I'm still not sure what to do, but am leaning towards giving a try...

Lua - I am a pharmacist. The important thing to remember is that it is just not true that everything that you eat or take as a breastfeeding mother turns up in your breastmilk.
The SSRIs (like sertraline and fluoxetine/prozac) are listed as 'the amount in breastmilk is too small to be harmful' and in fact in the study that tiktok posted the amount of sertraline found was non - existent.
All medicine use in pregnancy and breastfeeding should be considered as a 'risk versus benefit' senario. In this case there seems to be very little risk to the infant. The potential benefit depends on your level of illness which only you know.
HTH a bit

lua - the drug may be in the milk, but in tiny quantities, and don't forget the milk has to go through the baby's digestive system and it may be the stomach acids destroy the remaining traces, or enough of them for it not to appear in the baby's plasma in any measurable way. .

looby is talking sense

Thanks agains Tik tok and Loobywoof!

lua - kellymom.com has some really useful info. on drugs and bf - here is the link for AD's:

sorry my link didn't work. Again:

have a look at this