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Dear Everyone,
I have never posted to Lactnet before but have gained much from reading
your posts. I would be very grateful if anyone could share any thoughts,
ideas or experiences relating to breastfeeding and a miscarriage.
I have permission to post about the situation of one woman who is
breastfeeding her two year old daughter and recently experienced a silent
miscarriage. This occured at 6 weeks and was detected during the 12 week
scan.
She is under the medical care of a doctor and consultant but is finding that
the health care practitioners aren't very experienced in conservative
management of miscarriage and even less so of women who are breastfeeding
at the same time.
The current situation is that the last two scans have revealed that the sac is
still retained but is collapsing slowly. Her consultant commented today that
things seemed to be going slowly but that there was really no compelling
reason for surgical management other than achieving a quicker end to things.
Conservative management is very important to the mother and she would very
strongly wish to avoid surgical intervention if at all possible.
The main question I would like to ask is if breastfeeding might be
somehow 'drawing things out?' I felt that as she had successfully breastfed
through two healthy pregnancies there was no reason to suspect that
breastfeeding was negatively impacting on her body's natural mechanisims.
She also had a recent blood test which revealed low levels of HCG (84) still
present.
There seems virtually no information available on how breastfeeding might be
affecting matters (if at all). Any thoughts or experiences would be very
gratefully received.
With sincere thanks in advance,
Jennifer Ramsey (LLLL UK).
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