Everything I have ever read indicates that Amalgam removal or chelation should never be done while pregnant or nursing. It would just stir up more mercury from your fillings or body, and that would cause more mercury to be injested by your baby. Not to mention that most Amalgam removal or chelation procedures would involve you injesting drugs or anesthetics or large amounts of natural herbal or pharmacuetical chelators, which would also make their way into your baby. Getting rid of the mercury takes time, and you might want to hold off on it until your baby is off the milk.

Hi,
I just wanted to say that the body does not rid itself of mercury as it floats in the bloodstream until settles in the organs and has to be forced out through some form of chelation.
As for breastmilk, the mercury is probably being fed to your baby and will thus settle in baby's organs.
I'm no expert either but I know that if you are tasting metal, you and your baby are being poisoned. At the very least, I would switch baby to formula.
There's no way that the mercury will be flushed from your body in 3-4 months. If that were the case, none of us would be going through detox. We'd all be playing the waiting game.
Hope this helps.

How old is your baby? I think you should determine if the mercury your baby is now/could be experiencing is worse than the temporary problems with the removal. My dentist told me about 10% of the mercury released during removal that I would potentially absorb might be passed on to my daughter. I'm sure that's just a rough guess, but the point is your baby is getting whatever percentage now.

Only you can decide whether or not to continue to breastfeed and whether or not to get the Amalgam removed. Breastmilk has always contained traces of the toxins in our bodies and they have always been passed on to the baby. Has your baby been vaccinated? If not then he/she is one step ahead of the game. If they have already been exposed to mercury through vaccinations, you may want to consider the burden they already have of trying to detox from the poisons in the vaccinations.

I am still breastfeeding but my daughter is 33 months old so of course she is not taking in as much milk as a newborn. Also she has never been vaccinated and has always been extremely healthy. I decided to go ahead and have my Amalgams removed (all of them in the last three weeks!). I have not experienced any problems myself and I'm confident it was the right decision given the fact that as long as I felt like crap my daughter was certainly taking in toxins and poisons. I'm confident that by getting my mouth cleaned up (I still have to have an extraction on a tooth that has been abscessed for several years) my immune system will improve dramatically and I will continue to pass on the benefits of the best food in the world to my child.

I think it would be a shame to gamble on weaning when your child will need your breastmilk to deal with all of the toxic burdens on their system throughout their life, but your instincts will tell you whether or not the risk is too great.

Good luck!