In a message dated 9/4/2004 7:05:03 AM Eastern Standard Time,
[log in to unmask] writes:

"I was  told by a
wise LC that some women will walk on fire to be able to  breastfeed
(others would just as soon give up)."
I have always said "Some moms will crawl through the alligator swamps to be
able to breastfeed their baby."

Permission to post from a mom.  She suffered a T4-T5 incomplete spinal  cord
injury in a MVA accident in 1983.  She says she is monoplegic.   Wears a brace
on her left leg to assist with ambulation, and has spasms on that  side.  She
definitely produces more milk on her right side, with that  breast being
significantly larger than the left.  Interestingly, the baby  prefers her left
breast.  Would an injury at that level impact the nerves  that innervate the
breast?

Mary-Jane  Sackett, RN, IBCLC, CCE, CD(DONA)
Pittsfield,  MA


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