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Diane Wiessinger <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 24 Feb 1997 12:29:56 +0100
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I'd like to second Maureen Kennedy's comments on breastfeeding capability
after chest radiation for Hodgkin's disease.

My one experience w/ it came early in my years as a LLL Leader.  The mother
and I assumed that her baby's inadequate gain was related to the radiation.
She supplemented, and nursed into toddlerhood.

Then I saw a Kittie Frantz conference session on slow gaining babies.  She
called up "cases" from the audience, one of whom had the very same
floppy-doll appearance that my client's baby had had.  I had never heard of
hypotonic babies, but in retrospect I think it was (as usual) the baby who
had trouble driving the supply, not the mother who had trouble producing
it.  We focused so much on the mother that we never took a really good look
at the baby.

Diane Wiessinger, MS, IBCLC, LLLL  Ithaca, NY

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