Danny wrote:
"I have personally taken care of a number of babies in the NICU
who have suffered significant respiratory problems after being
delivered via elective c/s prior to 39 weeks gestation and no
documentation of fetal lung maturity.  Their respiratory problems had
nothing to do with infection.

By the way, how does this relate to breastfeeding?"


From my personal experience, having a term baby in NICU means the first few
days of breastfeeding take place in the middle of NICU, with all and sundry
walking past - not that big a problem when you're feeding baby number two,
but I can imagine how hard it would be if this was baby number one! Also, it
means orogastric tube feeding until the respiratory side of things settles
down, which means expressing milk, and in my son's case, ABM going down the
tube for the first day or so until sufficient quantities of milk could be
expressed.
None of which has interfered long term with breastfeeding (20 months and
still counting) but I can still vividly remember feeding him in the NICU and
thinking "gee I 'm glad this isn't my first"
JMHO

Kirsten Blacker
RN RM
Mum

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