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    Default Re: Can a Doctor Give Your Newborn Methadone when You Tell Them Not To

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    Your statement suggests one of two possibilities: First, that your wife is in recovery for opiate addiction and she was being maintained on methadone for the course of her pregnancy; or, second, that your wife was on other opiates for a pain condition and was transitioned to methadone for her pregnancy due to concerns for the possible complications that her former medications might create for her pregnancy.

    Either way, if she was being prescribed methadone, she should have been taking her methadone. Cessation during pregnancy poses harm to the fetus. More than that, if she was being prescribed methadone and was not taking that medication, why didn't she tell her doctors that she was ceasing her use of methadone? What was she doing with the methadone she was receiving from her doctors, if not taking it?

    If there's another explanation, please share it.
    She was not on methadone at all during her pregnancy not even pain killers....she was however a meth user 5 years ago and the doctor told us yesterday that he gave the baby methadone because he assumed that she was on it and gave it to our baby....he looked at her past records to see that...

    Quote Quoting Mr. Knowitall
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    Your statement suggests one of two possibilities: First, that your wife is in recovery for opiate addiction and she was being maintained on methadone for the course of her pregnancy; or, second, that your wife was on other opiates for a pain condition and was transitioned to methadone for her pregnancy due to concerns for the possible complications that her former medications might create for her pregnancy.

    Either way, if she was being prescribed methadone, she should have been taking her methadone. Cessation during pregnancy poses harm to the fetus. More than that, if she was being prescribed methadone and was not taking that medication, why didn't she tell her doctors that she was ceasing her use of methadone? What was she doing with the methadone she was receiving from her doctors, if not taking it?

    If there's another explanation, please share it.
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    You nay be right. If I remember correctly the drugs do not clear the unborn child's system the way it does the mothers.
    Baby's drug test was clean also

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    Default Re: Can a Doctor Give Your Newborn Methadone when You Tell Them Not To

    What damages has the baby suffered because of the methadone?

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