Bf and morphine

[hellymelociraptor]

I had a bad fall down some stairs yesterday, was given morphine in hospital (slightly less than a syringe full, so about 7 or 8 ml ? ) I am still bf my dd at night (she has just turned five) and am rubbish at pumping. Kellymom seems to suggest its ok, and I did have it after my c-sections, but this time I vomited and felt very faint. (Had fainted after the fall though, and was also given co-codamol which may be an added factor) So obv don't want to make dd ill- she was really upset by the fall as I fainted and it was all a bit scary and so now is not the time to avoid bf if I can help it. should i just feed her?

bumping as its bedtime!

This is common sense territory, I would think : )

Lactmed toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?LACT has amounts going into breastmilk as 'low' and the older the baby, the more quickly it clears....a single dose to the mother of a five year old is going to result in levels that are (surely) unworrying - but see what you think when you do the search yourself.

Hope you feel better soon, helly.

Thanks, that is reasonably reassuring. I'm ok, no fractures, no kidney damage, just lots of bruising so it hurts! (small person had left a shell on tiled steps, so I slipped as though on ice and slammed back hitting my kidneys on sharp edged tiled step. All v scary as I passed out and ambulance took 40 mins to come....but hobbling about now feeling much less green and faint.