Thank you to all those who responded. Mother says that she will be seeing the 
Paediatric surgeon next week, which is 2 weeks prior to the final surgery. She 
will email him the documents showing use of breastmilk prior to surgery to see 
if she can get the fasting time reduced. She will ask about making the surgery 
time earlier in the day. Will ask about admission in advance, use of IV 
hydration and maybe some sedation. Coinicidentally the last surgery was also 
1100am but the baby had to fast for 6 hrs then and was extremely distressed 
in that time frame. She will continue with exclusive breastfeeding rather than 
try to introduce water, as friends and GP suggested. The surgeon, who is well 
respected and who is pro breastfeeding may have just had a bad 
communications day, is what mother now thinks. He is the only one to come 
up into our regional area and is happy to do tongue tie procedures as needed. 
Mother may also have tuned out because she has been so stressed about her 
non-perfect baby and the horrid bag that she has had to deal with. She will 
really work on this enormous fasting time; she says that the surgeon said that 
he wanted to make sure that the bowel was pristine before closing the stoma 
and getting the new bowel-anus going, in order the give the baby the best 
chance of success. I will keep you posted re progress. Thanks again.
Cath Williams IBCLC RM
QLD Australia

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