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Date: | Tue, 24 Jun 1997 14:48:48 -0500 |
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When I was a nurse @ Riley Hospital for Children (Indianapolis),
following their lip repairs, the plastic surgery serivce also banned active
sucking. No breast feeding, bottle feeding, or pacifyers for about 2
weeks. We had to teach the parents to feed the infants with a Fleets
enema bottle (gasp!). Needless to say, those babies were grouchy, so
were the parents. We were always told this was for good wound
healing - to avoid scar formation. They did it this way for years, and as
far as I know, they still do it that way. A nurse friend of mine, who had a
son born with cleft lip and palate opted to feed him with an NG tube at
home post-op, and let him finger suck. He's now 10 years old - good
repair.
Sheryl, RNC
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