I have permission to post.  Mother is pumping breastmilk for a baby in
our NICU.  The baby was born at 25 weeks gestation and is now 32 weeks.
Mother breastfed her first child until he was 18 months old.  At that
time she began to get irritable sensations while nursing the toddler.
She describes it as having felt like a hair on your face that you can't
wipe off, brushing against a spider web and the "yucky,itchy"feeling
that you get but eventually it evolved into feeling like fingernails on
a blackboard.  Initially it was brief but it began to last through the
whole nursing period.  Although she and her lc at the time did a lot of
research and tried a lot of remedies, nothing really helped.  Now it is
starting while she is pumping for this baby.  She really wants to
breastfeed this baby and to continue to give him her milk.  She has an
excellent supply but she is afraid that this sensation will continue to
get worse as it did with her first child.  Any ideas of what is going on
or suggestions of ways to help?  She definitely does not associate it
with let down or oxytocin response.  Thank you for whatever ideas or
suggestions you have.  Barbara McKeever, RN, IBCLC


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