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Nofia Altman <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 16 Sep 1996 00:15:35 +0200
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I have a neighbor who just gave birth to her third, and who had to have a
cesaerean.  In the past I've tried to impress upon her the importance of
feeding the baby at night..because she keeps having the babies one after
another.  Now that she's had an operation, she doesn't seem to think the
way she used to.. is there a gentle way of maybe encouraging her to take
advantage of the infertility of breastfeeding without being really abrupt.
The woman needs a break but she doesn't want to admit it! (but she's
exhausted..her oldest is 2 and 9 mos!)

The other thing is that she doesn't read well..someone lent her the Womanly
Art but she just never sat down to read it.  Is the Womanly Art available
in an audio version?

As for baby friendly hospitals..maybe there's a way of adding "Infant
Formula" to the formal bill a couple receives when Mom and baby leave the
hospital.  Maybe telling the couple that  they have to foot the bill from
the beginning will start  them asking questions about the expense of
artificial feeding.  As far as Baby friendly goes, Israel seems to be far
behind..
When my daughter was born I had to fight to nurse her after eight hours!
She weighed in at 4 kilo and they told me "she doesn't need it"...
meanwhile, the girl who was a first time mother and sharing one of the five
beds in our room was discouraged from nursing because she just didn't get
the help she needed and her baby got jaundice..probably from lack of
fluids.  The nurses sneered at me for being pushy, but I let them know that
I was Mom and that I was the one who was taking the baby home and therefore
the baby would be fed the way *I* wanted it to be fed...

I would seriously like to go back to the same hospital, because the
gynecological staff there is fantastic, but I'm worried about the
breastfeeding issue.. I know someone who had a preemie there and the
pediatrician insisted on giving the baby formula and she died of "blood
poisoning".... I wonder if it could have been avoided with that special
preemie milk that only mother's bodies know how to make.  Any suggestions
for dealing with the hospital now?  I'm only asking because I know how much
the doctors there go through to avoid unneccessary operations.  They spend
three hours turning around a breech, and so on. And the head gynecologist
is one of the best in our country...if only they knew more about
breastfeeding... they could be a rate A hospital.

Nofia

  (I would love to have the next one in the living room but my husband
doesn't like the idea..but last time I made it to the hospital and had the
baby   a mere twenty minutes later...and that was only because we were in
the city.
so the idea of having the baby in our living room isn't really a joke...
it's a possibility.)

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