Neurotoxin and Filler After Pregnancy: A Timeline

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By Rowan Lynam · Dec 1, 2023

“If you’re a devotee of neurotoxins like Botox or Dysport or love injectable fillers like Juvéderm, you’re probably a bit put off that you need to take a pause during pregnancy. And if you’re chomping at the bit to get back on your regular treatments, you need to know exactly when you can go back to neurotoxin and filler after pregnancy. You might even be curious as to why you need to stop these treatments during pregnancy at all.

The good news is, all of our experts agreed: once you’re done breastfeeding, you can return to neurotoxins and filler after pregnancy.”

Pregnancy is a truly difficult time for scientific study.

According to Miami aesthetician Amy Peterson, there are a lot of ingredients that we just don’t know a lot about in terms of how they might impact a pregnancy, and so most practitioners will resort to an abundance of caution. “As we know, pregnancy is not something people want to risk,” Peterson says. “There’s nobody that’s going to say, ‘Yes, test this product of me to see if it’s pregnancy safe.’ In general, we know how ingredients behave, so if they pass into the bloodstream we know to avoid them.”