On Thursday 07 October 2004 20:21, Automatic digest processor wrote:
> 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.
Did that surgeon actually make any attempt to look and see what was going
on and where the bleeding came from? Was any blood work done? I presume
that this baby got Vit-K after birth. Any changes in stooling? (color,
consistency, odor, frequency, etc.)
> 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.
Weaning to bottles seems a bit extreme. I have not heard of nosebleeds
occurring from breastfeeding.
--
-Elisa H. Casey, MSN, ARNP.
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