I'm no mail, so please respond to me privately.

I am working with a mom who had a homebirth which went very well.
Later that night the baby started breathing "funny" so the midwife
was called back (very respected midwife in our area who has good
connections with the doctors here.)  They decided that the baby had
some fluid on his lungs and needed to be at the hospital.  They
admitted the baby to nicu and put an ng tube in.  They told her that
she couldn't bf because of the tube, but they keep stuffing a
pacifier in the baby's mouth.  The baby is also on some sort of IV
(they are refusing to give her any information and treating her
really badly due to her having a home birth.)  I *swear* I remember
reading something recently about nursing a baby with a tube in its
nose and that it could be done provided that the baby was maintained
in a semi-sitting position such as a football (clutch) hold would
allow.  Does anyone have any information about this.

This is not her first baby and she nursed through her pregnancy.  She
is not responding to the pump at all, but knows that he was getting
*something* when he was nursing (mom has not used a pump previously.)


Thank you for any information you can give me.  I sure wish she was a
different hospital!


Michelle

Then sigh not so, but let them go,
     And be you blithe and bonny,
     Converting all your sounds of woe
     Into Hey nonny, nonny.

             -William Shakespeare
              Much Ado About Nothing

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