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The recommendations the InfantRisk Center provides are not meant to replace medical advice from your physician. The ultimate decision to breastfeed while taking medications should be based on an informed decision including available data, discussions between a mother, her physician, and the infants' pediatrician. The decision to take medications during pregnancy should be based available data and a discussion between a mother and her OB/GYN.
I still have MDs (OB/GYN) on our L&D floor who tell our new moms they cannot breastfeed on levaquin, yet that's what they put them on for assorted things. The moms face enough struggles in the first few days. What is your current understanding, AAP classification, etc., on this drug? This same mom was ALSO told she had to pump and dump following a CT scan despite my having long ago provided the dept. with the ACR committee statement from 2009. She's also on flagyl. Triple wammy.
