Hello
I have a very healthy lively 17 month old son who was conceived whilst I was taking Sulphasalazine. I continued to take it throughout the pregnancy as I had miscarried twice because I had sticky blood due to RA so they were keen not to let me flare. They treated the sticky blood very easily with low dose aspirin. I also had regular steroid injections. Because Sulphasalazine is not licenced to take during pregnancy (although there are no known complications - it is an ethical thing about testing drugs on pregnant ladies) I was under a obstetritian from the moment I informed the Rheumatology dept I was pregnant. This isn't a bad thing as I had loads of ultrasound scans which was really nice (I only had the standard 2 before my daughter was born before I was diagnosed).
I was keen to breast feed so my consultant looked up sulphazalazine and breastfeeding. She said there was only 1 reported case of a child develpoing a rash which disappeared once breastfeeding ceased so I decided to give it a go. I breastfed him until he was 14 months (I had intended to stop when he was 12 months but it took longer than I had anticipated to persuade him to stop - I had to wait until my husband had a week off work and could put him to bed without me being there!)
Best of luck
Becky
