I got this email from and LC. For your information.

Jack Newman, MD, FRCPC

Just wanted to update you on the adoptive BF mom I emailed you about. She
was taking herbs and I asked you about her taking Domperidone with regard to
her medical/heart condition.

She decided to try to get a prescription for Domperidone and get it from
Canada. She got the Rx from her gastroenterologist w/out any hesitation.
Domperidone is almost half the cost from Canada than from Mexico. I thought
that was interesting. She received it the day after she ordered it.

I talked to her by phone last Friday...one week after she started the
Domperidone. She was having a bad day, was upset and certain she had no
breast milk yet. She told me she that even tho she said if she never
produced a drop of milk, she would be glad she could still BF, she knows how
important breastmilk is for babies and she wants to give her baby the very
best. She had always wanted to BF and was having a hard time with the idea
of having to settle for formula at the breast. She was crying.

She could see no milk when she pumped ocassionally. But her breasts felt
fuller, felt tenderness in the left breast and her baby would nurse several
times a day for varied amounts of time w/out the SNS. She has been great
about putting the baby to breast w/out SNS between, before and after feeds
since birth. She and her husband were fortunate enough to be at the hospital
when the baby was born and she was brought to them at "2 minutes" of
age...put to breast w/in 1 hour of birth.

Anyway, I thought it best to see them so I could observe baby at breast
w/out SNS.  I saw them yesterday. Mom stated that she had pumped a couple
times over the weekend and still no milk. Her breast were noticably fuller
than when I'd seen her before she started pumping about a month before the
baby's birth.

So, the baby nursed both breasts w/out SNS - it appeared she was "drinking"
on the right breast, but I was not so sure about the left. After one time on
each side, mom stated she couldn't see any milk when she hand expressed. So,
I went over correct hand expression technique with her, massaging first.
She didn't know how to do it correctly.  With the first compression we saw
milk! This was the first time for her to see ANYTHING from her breasts other
than a drop of blood when she first started pumping. She was so elated...she
started to cry. She had brought her camera and asked me to take a picture of
that drop of milk for proof.  We had even better success on the left breast.
  She was so happy and it was such a GREAT feeling to see how much this
meant to her!!

It was SOOOOOO cool!!  I've been on a high ever since. It truly is a miracle
to think of the how a woman's body was designed to make milk for a baby she
didn't give birth to.  This is not the first time I've worked with an
adoptive mom...she just had me worried it wasn't going to work for her.

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