(have, for now finished expressing…….)

Pre-pregnacy, i was all over the place with methadone scripts ranging from 20mls to 120mls. just before i had a blunder with contraception (don’t trust the cap 100%, that’s all i can say girls!) i was about 4 weeks off of ALL street drugs and booze and stable on 60mls methadone.

when morning sickness crept up behind me and battered me morning noon and night, keeping methadone down was inconcievable, so did a 100yard dash to 30mls and at the advice of CEDAS titrated (rather shakilly) on to SUBUTEX.

At first i was on 18mgs sub, and during the safer 2nd trimester detoxed down 2mgs per week to 6mgs, but this was too low for pain relief, so it stablalised at 8mgs for the rest of the pregnancy, going up to 12mgs 3days before the planned C-Section.

my daughter was born with a very healthy APGAR score of 9 out of 10.

After the drug screens, and health screens came back negative, day 3 i could breast feed my baby. The head doc of the NICU ward said and other doc’s have repeated his advice ( also check out National Ins of health and Clinical Excellence aka NICE from the UK/NHS as this gives great up to date info on this topic). 12mgs has no ill affects on babies nor messes up milk supplies. Above this, then don’t!

my lovely baba has sadly shown signs of NAS. this was on day 3. Since breast feeding, she has shown good signs of improvement and i feel horrible for not being stronger and stopping in the 2nd trimester 100%, but the need for stability and safety was paramount.

really hopes this helps anyone going through the same thing.

i’m going through similar and sorry i can’t give more expo at moment as VERY difficult due to expressing milk and typing a no no……

hope this helps and i’ll tell you the background and how my beautiful babe is doing now.
(week old 2morow)

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