Many have been questioning why a mother would be pumping this much at this 
age in the child. With the down syndrome children I have worked with and 
another child that has a syndrome very much alike in certain characteristics 
these children relied on breastmilk for their main souce of nutrition for a long 
time. One child we had to send off for evaluation from someone who could 
properly assess the value of the breastmilk as many were telling her to quit 
nursing  and the child would eat more. Of course now at 2.5 years she is of 
normal size and eats well, not to par and still nurses 3 times per day but up 
until almost a year ago mom fed every 3 hours at least during the day and 
maybe one time at night. She was given vitamins and assessed frequently for 
other issues but the breastmilk kept her going until she had the ability to chew 
and swallow which is sometimes missing or lacking in these children. Both of 
these kids needed extensive OT to be where they are today.
Emily Lindsey, BSPsy, CLE
Private Practice
Merced, CA

             ***********************************************

Archives: http://community.lsoft.com/archives/LACTNET.html
Mail all commands to [log in to unmask]
To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail
To start it again: set lactnet mail (or [log in to unmask])
To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet or ([log in to unmask])
To reach list owners: [log in to unmask]