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Heleen,
I would consider suggesting to mom that she work on building breast tissue
(milk producing cells) during her pregnancy and definitely have PCOS ruled
out. My daughter who is due to birth her second child soon and has PCOS
that was only diagnosed after the birth of her first child, has had a
significantly different pregnancy this time being on metformin, progesterone
until this last month, and goat's rue last several weeks. (important to note
is that my daughter's PCOS/insulin resistance did not show up in laboratory
findings nor cystic ovaries, but was diagnosed by Dr Gabbay by
symptomology). This pregnancy she has had noticeable breast changes and can manually
express colostrum none of which she had in her previous pregnancy and these
changes occurred before her 34 the week which is when her first child was
born. In fact at one point, her midwives who were unfamiliar with
progesterone use past first trimester, had her go off it and within days her breasts
actually "deflated," that is became flaccid and less dense. She quickly
resumed and actually then went on weekly progesterone injections. I am
grateful for the guidance of Lisa Marasco for my daughter and hopeful, no
positive, that she'll breastfeed with a normal milk supply this time.
It seems worth looking into what she might do even before she's pregnant as
what you describe breast-wise and milk supply-wise is quite similar to my
daughter's first experience as she provided about 1/2 of the milk my
grandson needed for his first 2 yrs).
Barbara Latterner, BSN, RN, IBCLC
Mother has hypoplastic tubular breasts and went through quite some trouble
to nurse her first
3 children. She used high doses of domperidon and needed about 300 ml
donormilk in a SNS to feed her children adequately. Baby would lose interest in
breast if she didn't supplement with SNS because of low milkflow.
She is planning to try to conceive later this year and is not looking
forward to using domperidon again because it makes her hungry all the time and
she gains lots of weight as well (from eating more).
She is wondering if there is another way to stimulate prolactine, apart
from domperidon.
--
Heleen Hayes, http://www.xs4all.nl/~hhayes
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