Printed from: Anaesthesia & Sedation for Breastfeeding Parents https://www.breastfeeding-anaesthesia.info/ 1 ANAESTHESIA & SEDATION FOR BREASTFEEDING PARENTS PATIENT INFORMATION Summary It is quite common that people will need surgery at some point while they are breastfeeding. As well as the usual worries about coming for an operation or procedure, parents often feel concerned about the safety of continuing to breastfeed afterwards. Most people can continue to breastfeed following sedation or anaesthesia. "Pumping and Dumping" (or expressing and disposing of the expressed breast milk) is hardly ever required. Please let the healthcare providers looking after you know that you are breastfeeding so they can discuss this with you and support you to do this around the time of your surgery. If you have any concerns about your health or the health of your baby let the team caring for you know. This website is not a substitute for individualised health care advice. Types of Anaesthesia Sedation: medicine is given (often via an intravenous cannula or "drip") to make you comfortable during a procedure. For example - colonoscopy/gastroscopy (camera tests of the gut), dental procedures, minor surgery under local anaesthesia General Anaesthesia (GA): medicine is given via a cannula to make you unconscious for an operation. For example - abscess surgery, appendicectomy (removal of appendix), cholecystectomy (removal of gallbladder). Regional Anaesthesia: using local anaesthetic (LA) to block a nerve or group of nerves to allow surgery to occur without pain. For example - spinal anaesthesia, epidural, arm block. Often a regional can be done without any sedating medications which allows you to return to eating, drinking and breastfeeding as quickly as possible after the surgery. Before the Procedure • Let your surgeon/proceduralist and anaesthetist know that you are breastfeeding
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