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Date: | Sat, 25 Jun 2005 20:06:48 EDT |
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Friends,
This is so hard to write. I have a very good friend who is 31 weeks pg.
Her water has broken and she is in the hospital trying to get baby to stay put
at least to 32 weeks. She is pretty anti-breastfeeding (why I don't
understand, she has never really said, and I don't feel comfortable asking her.) I
shared with her information on the true importance of breastmilk with a
premature baby, being medicine NOT just food. I told her about some of the
complications of prematurity (NEC among others) and how her milk and hers alone
could help prevent that. She wrote me an email and said that she "knows I am a
nurse, and a bf advocate, but NOTHING is going to change her mind about this".
She says she has consulted with many doctors and they are all trying to
ensure that her baby gets the absolute best start. I feel so sad. If it wasn't
so close to home, I wouldn't feel like such a failure. I sent her
information from Paula Meier, thinking that hearing it from a real expert may mean
something. Apparently not. I am praying this baby has no complications. Of
course then she will have "proved me wrong" about breast milk, what a catch
22. At the same time, if there are complications how do I handle it if she
comes to me feeling guilty or worse. This is my first experience with someone
so truly anti breastfeeding that they won't even consider it with their own
sick baby. I am hoping that the doctors and nurses in the NICU are well
informed and will talk her into it, but who knows. Just needed to vent and
hopefully get an online hug or two for my failure and inadequacy as a breastfeeding
advocate. Guess I really failed this one. :(
Thanks for listening
Renee Drake RN CLC
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