This is terrifying to me.
I suffer from chronic pain. I take OxyContin and oxycodone, both opiates.
I breast fed my second child. I did massive amounts of research, I contacted breast feeding support services and got information and opinion from both her in the UK and America. It seemed at the time I was the only person in the UK to have fed while on OxyContin although I suspect there are others but no studies have been done.
I wasn't allowed to breast feed my first on the same drugs. She went through withdrawal and needed morphine to wean her off (just under a week it took but it was horrible), I fed ds for 2.5 years. He never had withdrawal.
It upsets me so much to read some of the comments up thread about if you must take the meds bottle feed. My dd suffered because of that attitude. I had ds in a different health trust that was far more open minded thankfully.
There shouldn't have been such high amounts in this babies system, the transfer amounts are tiny. It seems that the mother was judged for feeding on opiates and they simply didn't bother to look further or ask why. I really hope she manages an appeal, she is suffering enough.