I know I’m going to have plentyyyy of mixed comments, I am currently 22 weeks pregnant, I never smoked cigarettes, just marijuana, but quit that in the early weeks of my pregnancy, I am 21 and have been smoking since I was 15 for depression, anxiety, severe PTSD, insomnia, and later found out it helped with my undiagnosed autism symptoms as well..essentially I have been medicating with thc for the last 6 years..it was the only thing to help with everything and I was able to stop taking almost every medication aside from my sleeping pill very sparingly like specifically just when I needed to go to sleep and wake up at a specific time, I smoked all throughout my TTC journey as well, and then I found out we were finally pregnant and slowly stopped as soon as I possibly could but went through severe withdrawal..not being able to eat or sleep and the ptsd nightmares came back and I also can’t take my sleeping medicine anymore because it’s not safe during pregnancy..so I stopped as soon as possible without putting to much stress on my body..even though it is now legal in my state of Ohio for anyone over 21, of course I had to stop during my pregnancy, I am absolutely okay with all of that, however I have heard very mixed things about smoking while breastfeeding, which I want to exclusively do until baby is a year old..and I do plan to build up a stash in the freezer so the freezer stash is an option for when I would pump and dump so he could still have breast milk..I’ve heard that it’s similar to drinking alcohol and I could smoke, pump and dump for 3 hours and then baby could continue breastfeeding, I’ve also heard you could smoke one time, and then you’d have to wait like a week for baby to breastfeed and you would have to pump and dump that entire time..I under no circumstances want to put thc in my child’s body while I am breastfeeding, but pumping and dumping especially for up to a week after smoking one time which would be more recreational than medicinal because medicinally I would need to smoke multiple times a day every single day like I was..it just seems like such a waste to me..but please I’m not looking for people in the comments to tell me I’m going to be a horrible mother for smoking marijuana after my child is born or after I am done breastfeeding..I don’t have to be high, I’m proving that right now by growing my child for months on end without smoking, mental illnesses aside..I would absolutely rather deal with it, barely, than lose custody of my baby we worked so hard to conceive..but to say I don’t absolutely miss being able to manage my mental illnesses especially without 10 different pills that I can’t even take during pregnancy or while breastfeeding anyways would be a lie..I do miss it and I think about how much better I would feel mentally if I were able to smoke but that just isn’t possible now..but while breastfeeding is a completely unknown ballgame and scientists aren’t even studying how marijuana is passed through breast milk not really..so it really is absolutely up in the air but I just need opinions..thank you for your time