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NEONATOLOGY
Does Marijuana Affect a Breastfeeding Infant?
Neonatologist Erica Wymore, MD, MPH,
is conducting one of the first robust, high-
quality studies that investigates how much
marijuana makes its way into breast milk
and how long it stays there.
LEADERSHIP:
Randall Wilkening, MD,
Division Head,
Neonatology
The Lenore T. Stoddart
- La Cache Chair,
Neonatology
Theresa Grover, MD,
Medical Director,
Neonatal Intensive Care
Danielle Smith, MD,
Associate Medical
Director, Neonatal
Intensive Care
READ MORE ABOUT
NEONATOLOGY:
“Saving ‘The Sickest
Baby in the Hospital’,”
p. 44
She leads the study at Children’s Colorado,
along with Maya Bunik, MD, MPH,
Medical Director of the Primary Care
and Breastfeeding Management Clinic
at Children’s Hospital Colorado, and with
cooperation from University of Colorado
Hospital and the University of Colorado
School of Medicine.
Commissioned by the Centers for
Disease Control, it’s an early foray into
an area of intense public inquiry and
few definitive answers.
The study is currently recruiting mothers
who intend to breastfeed and who have
a positive urine sample for i