Breastfeeding and getting pierced

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Friday January 11th, 2008 @ 9:23 PM

Filed under: Piercing

My wife is thinking about getting her lips pierced. She’s wanted it for a long time already.

She is breastfeedng (6th moth now) and wants to continue to do so.

Are there anny extra risks, eccept for a possible longer heelingtime, that she might have to take into acount?

Cheers Bas

Yes the piercings will have a longer heal time as the body is working very hard to generate milk so it can be passed onto the child. Because of this it is ideal to wait until your wife is no longer breast-feeding, before obtaining any piercings.

Also due to the longer heal time if any potential infections were to occur or other problems, it can be passed into the child through the breast milk.

So as I stated it would be ideal to wait until your wife is completely done breast-feeding, before obtaining and piercings or tattoos,etc.

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