Heavy duty dental treatment and breastfeeding

Well I've been to the dentist again this morning. Since I got pregnant fillings have been falling out left right and centre.

Anyway, once the twins are here I am going to have to have some heavy duty treatment including a root canal (already had loads of these so not worried about the process) and a crown.

Now will I have to make sure I have a supply of EBM for them? Will the anaesthetic affect the breast milk? Its not going to be happening for a while yet, as the twins aren't due until March/April next year. Luckily this morning's replacement filling was in a tooth already previously root canaled and so no anaesthetic was required.

TIA

x

Poor you!

AFAIK, most local anesthetics won't stop you bfing.

The breast feeding network have a PDF on bfing and dental work at this link. If you have any questions, they have a phoneline and I've found the staff really helpful in the past.

http://www.breastfeedingnetwork.org.uk/drugline-information-and-factsheets.html

Thanks Zebra,

I am just hoping the twins inherit their father's teeth and not mine.

x

It's awful isn't it, what pregnancy does to your teeth!

When Dora was about 4-5 weeks old, I had to have 2 teeth out. the dentist said that the anaesthetic wouldn't affect breastfeeding, but I chose to have it done under sedation, so couldn't feed for 24 hours. It was the longest 24 hours ever!

Luckily, my sister had a baby 3 weeks before me and is breastfeeding her baby, so she came over for the day with him, and fed mine too! She was absolutely shattered the day after though... I'm surprised she hadn't completely wasted away, she was feeding one or the other all day!