Cutting the bile duct is a life threatening medical mistake.  At least

15% of us are plumbed somewhat differently and the duct is not where

the surgeon thinks it is.  My printers wife had her bile duct severed by


a local surgeon.  She needed corrective surgeries to enable her to get
any bile to flow to her food.  It was a big coverup here in our town and
they had to find a specialist in Seattle.  According to one paper I
printed off for them from the Internet, digestion is never the same.
This woman, who had no dependant children at home to take care of nearly
died, and lost weight down to skin and bones.  She could not eat.  Food
kept coming up instead of going down.  She is just beginning to look
like herself again and it is about 10 years now.  There were many trips
to the emergency room due to severe pain in her abdomen whenever she
ate.  Plus she never knew what would fail to digest.



If this breastfeeding mom cannot keep the strength to keep
breastfeeding, no one should fault her.  The family should get the docs
malpractice insurance to hire a housekeeper for her so that she can
concentrate only on her new baby and not expend any more caloric output
while this is healing.  Everyone should be praying that she returns
somewhat to normal.  If her liver is damaged, she needs to be referred
to a transplant specialist unit for the rules on how to optimize saving
her livers function.  Many drugs, alcohol and some foods would then be
off limits.

Judy Ritchie





Subject: Re: a question about a new mom who had gallbladder and liver
damage....



Lori, This is a situation that is unfortunate, but it is not lost, re:
BF. I would suggest getting the baby to breast, perfect the latch, and
if the mom needs to pump make sure she is using a double pump often
(hospital grade).  If the baby needs supplementing, use a feeding tube
at breast.  Domperidone can be used to increase supply, if it fits with
the rest of her medical situation.  I'd try to make breastfeeding as
normal as possible, given the situation where everything else is awry.


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