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Reading everyone's stories is great. We were all motivated , which is key in my mind, and when there is a strong will, obstacles can and will be surmounted.
Jane Ciaramella
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From: patty belkin
Date: Sunday, February 8, 2009 7:24 pm
Subject: how did you learn?
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> As a graduate student in a Pediatric Nurse Practitioner program
> I had one lecture on breastfeeding and had decided when I had
> children I would breastfeed.
> With our first child I had a very difficult labor (about 3
> days), never progressed enough and ended up with a broken arm
> and a c/section!
> Thank goodness I had decided I was going to breastfeed. You can
> breastfeed with one arm but you can't bottlefeed or do much else.
> We hired a baby nurse to help us (she was sure that I couldn't
> breastfeed this baby and that she should be allowed to bottle
> feed him)and I fired her within a few hours and replaced her
> with house help only (this was 24 yrs ago). She would hand my
> son to me and changed the diapers, etc. I remember my arm
> hurting and feeding constantly . I must have had some
> engorgement but with everything else I don't remember it. I
> never thought of pumping, I was just recovering from a c/section
> with a painful broken arm (I didn't want to take anything that
> could put my breastmilk at risk, make my son sleepy, etc.) ...I
> do remember my dad visiting and asking when I was going to give
> my son some real food. By the time I was breastfeeding my
> second child my dad would proudly announce that I only breastfeed.
> Patty Krumholtz-Belkin MSN PNP IBCLC
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