Hello wise ones,

Reposted with permission of the mother. This came up on the pumpmoms
list, and I was hoping someone here might have some data on suction
forces and nosebleeds.
~~~
A friend of mine had an incident while nursing her then 7-day old son,
and I wondered if anyone here every had (or heard of) a similar
experience.  She was nursing him and when she went to switch breasts,
she saw that his mouth was full of blood. She checked herself and she
wasn't bleeding.  Then DS suddenly he gasped, blood poured out of his
nose and he stopped breathing!  He went totally limp and blue.  She is
a pediatrician, thank god, and did rescue breathing until the
ambulance came.  By then he was breathing on his own, but irregularly.
When they got to the hospital, he was doing much better.  They can't
figure out where the blood came from - the surgeon they consulted
thought it was a nosebleed.

Her son is now doing great, but she and her husband are worried that
the force DS was using to suck at the breast caused him to break a
blood vessel in his nose, and that caused the bleeding, so she is now
almost exclusively pumping, although trying to get him on the breast
at least once a day.
~~~

Many thanks

Lara Hopkins

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