Okay- I'm probably not the right person to lecture the more knowledgeable masses about illicit drug use. But for goodness sake-- please stop giving them to the baby during your pregnancy! At this moment we have our own little detox unit in the NICU-- Drugs of choice include cocaine, marijuana, opiates, benzodiazepines, and Robitussin with codeine and various combinations thereof. Even if you have a prescription for it your baby will have to withdraw from the drugs. And, yes, methadone is a drug and your baby will have to detox from that too. Please don't get mad at me for stating that your baby has symptoms of chemical withdrawal, I don't make up the symptoms, I only seek to treat them so the baby can get some sleep, eat with out vomiting and quit sneezing and yawning. You try giving up drugs and see how it feels.
Yesterday I transported in two more infants in withdrawal.
Enough already. Please get some help, not for yourself, just so the baby can avoid this misery.
Thanks.
Sunday, April 13, 2008
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