Hi Lactnetters,
I am a blood banker by trade and I have done alot of antibody
identification and cross matching for fetal maternal incompatibilities
and for the life of me can not figure out what it has to do with
breastfeeding. If this baby has other problems that keep him from  being
able to take oral feeding than that is a whole 'nother ball of wax.  If
there is any antibody in the mom's milk, it isn't going to get  to the
baby's blood cells anyway.

 I was a Peace Corps volunteer at a mission hospital in the Congo. I
taught blood banking and  microbiology.  One day I took  my students in
to observe an exchange transfusion. They watched with interest and the
baby calmly lay there sucking his fist.  When it was over one young
student asked "Well what about the baby?  Aren't you going to give him
any medicine or anything? "The pediatrician scooped up the baby and said
"Nope I'm going to find his mama. He is going to nurse."
Mary Graden
Idaho

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