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When can nursing mothers resume breastfeeding after surgery?

Saturday, March 12th, 2005

Sometimes women who are breastfeeding must undergo surgery requiring general anesthesia or conscious sedation. They understandably want to know when they may safely resume breastfeeding.

Because there are few data regarding how much of these drugs is actually excreted in the milk, physicians err on the side of caution and advise the women to pump and […]

Mom gets probation in pump mix-up

Saturday, February 5th, 2005

GRAND JUNCTION - A 24-year-old single mother walked out of a Mesa County courtroom Monday with the threat of a yearlong prison term no longer hanging over her.Instead, Melissa Sparkman will serve a year of unsupervised probation after being wrongly accused of stealing a breast pump.Sparkman’s problems started after her daughter was born 19 months […]