Has anyone used domperidone or know anything about it?

[JRHartley]

I would be very grateful if anyone could give me any advice or share their experience.

I have posted before about my ds losing weight and I had to give him formula top ups. I am stil topping him up, as my supply is still not enough for him, although thankfully he has now exceeded his birthweight at 6 weeks. The bf coubsellor has suggested perhaps using domperidone. It is my dream to fully be ds, but the idea of taking medication is a bit worrying.

Please could anyone who knows anything about it share their experience, Thankyou!

To those researching about the pros and cons of Domperidone. Health Canada and FDA have issued warnings regarding the use of this medication above 30mg daily. Domperidone is often prescribed at doses of 30mg THREE TIMES DAILY! This is an off label use of the medication as milk production is one of it's side effects at high doses. Unfortunately another rare but serious side effect is heart arrrythmias and sudden cardiac death.

There are many mums who will swear by this medication and say that it worked and they had no side effects. But ask yourself this- are you taking big dose of a medication and risking serious side effects to treat a serious medical condition-NO! so the choice is very simple formula milk or possible rare but potentially fatal side effect.

Your baby with have had antibodies that boost its immune system within the first two weeks of breast-feeding. The rest is great but more so because of the enormous pressure by midwives on mothers to breast feed and made to fee a failure if they can't.At some point you will move from milk to weaning on solids-why risk the side effects?????

Not that simple. Formula comes with risk to the baby. It's balancing the risks that is hard.

I used it with DD1 and it worked really well (low supply). I have had the same problem with DD2 but they will no longer prescribe it and you can't buy it anymore easily in the UK. I asked a friend who is a GP who simply said it is heavily linked to cardiac issues, why take the risk. I realised that actually although I would like EBM in reality I don't want to put my health or that of DD2 at risk by taking it so it's better to use half and half formula (which I do) good luck