I don't have any experience with your situation, however, my son was put 
on life support and airlifted to another hospital within a few hours of 
birth.  It was probably 12 hours post partum by the time I left the 
hospital (AMA) and got in the car and drove the 3 hours to the hospital 
he was at.  We didn't expect him to live and I wanted to be holding him 
when he died, so I would guess it was 36 hours post partum by the time 
we realized he was out of danger and I got to the pumping room to get 
colostrum for him.  During that time he had an IV and received something 
called TPN - not entirely sure what this is; I'm sure one of the RNs on 
the list could enlighten us.  I know it's nutrition for him but am not 
sure what all it has in it (i.e. sugar etc.).  I know that it was about 
6 hours from the time he was born until he arrived at the NICU and 
received TPN.  So my guess would be if it's just a few hours between 
when the baby is born and when she is able to breastfeed that she could 
safely refuse sugar water or formula for the baby.  This is only based 
on my own experience with my child and also I've had a friend who had 
two emergency C-sections where she had general anesthesia since she 
didn't have an epidural during labour.  Both times it was about 8 hours 
post partum when she finally saw her babies and both times the babies 
were given NOTHING while in the Nursery, at her request (not even 
pacifiers).  They waited for mum to be able to safely breastfeed.  
Hopefully this will be the case for this mom that you are helping.

Margo Trueman
LLL Leader

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