We have a mom who was hospitalized on the weekend with an infection.  She had a Csection at the beginning of the month and started having problems within a week of being home.  Anyway, she had an incisional abcess drained and is on antibiotics.  They thought initially , she had MRSA and we dealt with that. The question raised by the infection control nurse is this moms ability to heal quickly and how is the lactation process interfering with her body's ability to do that.  The mom is now on TPN because she has been basically sick for almost a month.  Her bowel quit working too which added to the problem.  I tried to explain to her that lactation is a normal body function and that if we are concerned about her nutritional status then adjust the TPN to give her enough.  We went round and round.  She kept saying basically that lactation was sapping this moms energy and would delay her healing.  I asked this nurse what she would do if this mom were so sick and pregnant?  Any thoughts on how to handle this and or explain more eloquently ?  

Laura Walker
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