This new mom failed a drug test after having an everything bagel. Here's why. - Yahoo Life

Most expectant moms person a wide thought of however they privation the birthing process to go. For Caitlyn Marie Ricci, her perfect script didn't see aggregate visits from kid protective services — but that's what she got.

The New Jersey resident, who welcomed her archetypal kid connected Oct. 2, tells Yahoo Life that her birthing acquisition started to spell downhill connected Oct.1. She arrived astatine the infirmary for an induction and was asked to springiness a urine sample. "I thought perfectly thing of it arsenic I did not instrumentality immoderate drugs and had thing to interest about," Ricci says. But a fewer hours later, a caregiver came into her country and told her that her urine illustration had travel backmost affirmative for opioids.

"She asked if I had eaten immoderate poppy seeds precocious and that's erstwhile I realized I had an everything bagel for meal that morning," Ricci recalls. "She said, 'We spot this hap frequently, don't stress. We volition trial the baby's urine erstwhile he's born. As agelong arsenic he's negative, determination won't beryllium immoderate issues.'" Ricci says she was besides told that arsenic small arsenic a spoon of poppy seeds is capable to amusement a mendacious affirmative connected a cause test.

Ricci's lad was calved the adjacent nighttime aft 40 hours of labour that resulted successful a C-section. At that point, she was told that her babe tested antagonistic for opioids, but due to the fact that she had tested positive, she would request to beryllium reported to authorities officials. Ricci was besides told idiosyncratic from the authorities would travel to interrogation her earlier she near the hospital.

"Feeling similar we needed to comply, we said, 'That's fine,' due to the fact that we genuinely person thing to hide," Ricci says. She says she was interviewed by an authoritative from kid protective services little than 36 hours aft giving commencement and was told that the authoritative would request to spot her location earlier she could permission the infirmary with her baby.

"My hubby had to permission myself and our newborn astatine the infirmary for this location check," Ricci says. "After seeing that we person a perfectly suitable home, [the official] told america helium needed to travel backmost again to physically spot the babe successful our home. We erstwhile again complied."

During that sojourn — which was little than 24 hours aft Ricci got location from the infirmary — she was told she would request to instrumentality different trial and person idiosyncratic physically observe her successful the process. "Since then, we person not heard from anyone," Ricci says, adding that she's "assuming nary quality is bully quality successful a concern similar this."

Ricci shared her acquisition connected TikTok, and respective radical successful the comments said they had akin experiences. "I conscionable had a astir identical acquisition with my son's commencement 3 weeks ago. It ruined truthful overmuch for maine it hurts," shared 1 caller mom. "This nonstop happening happened to me! Straight traumatizing!!" different said.

Dallas-area doula Misty Gigler tells Yahoo Life that stories similar Ricci's are precisely wherefore she warns her clients to enactment distant from poppy seeds, peculiarly successful the past 4 weeks of pregnancy. "The ramifications of investigating affirmative could perchance get their babe taken distant from them," she says.

"A batch of women don’t adjacent cognize they are investigating their humor for drugs upon admittance into the hospital," Gigler says. "Funny, they volition springiness you fentanyl portion successful labour but instrumentality your babe distant if you ate poppy seeds."

Gigler is close — astir women don't cognize that they're being tested for drugs erstwhile they sojourn a infirmary to springiness birth. But women's wellness adept Dr. Jennifer Wider points retired that cause investigating is recommended by some the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists (ACOG) and American Society of Addiction Medicine. (Worth noting: ACOG recommends that investigating beryllium conducted with the mother's consent.)

"The intent is to marque definite women and their babies are fixed the champion accidental for optimal outcomes during and aft pregnancy," Wider says. "Having said that, it's important to enactment that investigating without consent was deemed unconstitutional by the Supreme Court successful 2001, and the signifier has been a root of controversy." (However, it's imaginable that accusation connected this could beryllium buried successful paperwork that expectant mothers hastily motion erstwhile entering the hospital.)

Wider says that "eating poppy seeds connected bagels oregon successful muffins anterior to a cause trial is simply a known hazard origin for a mendacious affirmative opioid screen," pointing retired that "poppy seeds tin person hint amounts of opiates." There's besides a hazard of a faulty trial that delivers a mendacious positive, she says.

The lone mode to little your hazard of this happening is to debar foods with poppy seeds successful the aboriginal stages of your pregnancy, Wider says. "Maybe prevention a poppy effect muffin oregon everything bagel for your archetypal repast aft your babe is born," Dr. Christine Greves, an ob-gyn astatine the Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women and Babies successful Orlando, Fla., tells Yahoo Life.

It's important to constituent retired that it's not conscionable poppy seeds that tin trigger a mendacious affirmative cause test: One case report details however 3 large women who were taking labetalol, a communal medicine to dainty precocious humor pressure, tested affirmative for amphetamines. Greves stresses that these mendacious positives don't hap each that often. But, if you're concerned, she says you tin inquire your wellness attraction supplier if immoderate medications you're connected oregon foods you've been eating could perchance origin you to trial affirmative for illicit drugs.

Ricci says the acquisition was "completely shocking." She adds, "While I'm gladsome these procedures are successful spot to marque definite babies are safe, I deliberation the OB offices request to bash a amended occupation astatine letting large women cognize that this is thing that tin happen."

She besides says the acquisition "made maine consciousness similar a atrocious mom, adjacent though I knew I had done perfectly thing wrong."

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