FakeBoobsRule is an interesting choice of names for a breastfeeding question, isn't it? But I know FakeBoobs didn't just name himself/herself (are you a man or a woman?) for purposes of breast-related threads. The other strangely related tidbit here is that the only time in my life I was ever accused of having breast implants was when I was nursing my son. What a lovely, busty time that was.

Narrows, I'm still hoping Storm Crow will see this thread and chime in with any information she may have seen on this topic. You can never go wrong with what your own doctor and respected pregnancy/lactation advice books tell you on this topic, however, and that's to avoid the chance of transmitting THC, other cannabinoids or any associated weed chemical contents to your baby via breast milk. Plenty of women make the self-centered choice to do that anyway, I know, but doctors advise against it for the same reason they tell you to avoid transmitting other meds to the baby that way--because it's a huge unknown and one with dangerous potential.

As far as concrete in-depth research goes, no research organization is going to spend any time or effort seriously testing the safety and efficacy of marijuana use during lactation simply because the stakes are too high with infants, who are forming all those critical neural pathways in their brains as they're nursing (and throughout infancy and childhood). Wouldn't you rather err on the side of caution where a vulnerable infant is concerned? I ask this not only as a mother but as a medical student who's leaning heavily in the direction of either pediatrics or ob-gyn for my specialty. If the choice really does boil down to cannabis vs. nursing for you, then perhaps you'd consider switching to bottle feeding if you can't postpone smoking for a little longer?