Hi Phyllis:
My hospital stocks an 8oz bottle of sterile extra virgin olive oil with the medications.  It's available on the Labor and Delivery side for perineal massage, and available on the Mother/Baby side for pumping.  Who would have thought we could offer a hospital grade food product to our patients??  Just as an aside, if I see a bottle already in the room from Labor, I still get a fresh bottle for the pumping, but that's just me.  Usually when the milk is flowing, they don't need it anymore.

Also a question/comment about cabbage.  Why can't the cabbage cover the nipple? That's often the swollen area we are having most trouble with!  I've never understood why that instruction continues to be made.  The original Australia research articles never included instructions to avoid the nipple/areola.

I have had great success in the hospital with ice packs and "power pumping".  Five minutes on one breast with massage, five minutes on the other breast with massage, repeat 2-3 times.  Often that one power session breaks things up and gets the milk moving enough that mom knows she's on the downhill side of the problem.

Jeanne Mitchell, RN IBCLC
Austin, TX
  Any suggestions on obtaining oil for use on the PP floor? manner of
  dispensing it? olive, corn, canola, other?
  Phyllis


  Phyllis Adamson, IBCLC, RLC
  Glendale, AZ
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