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"Ellen Penchuk, IBCLC" <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 15 Aug 2003 16:34:59 -0400
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Yes the ability to breastfeed one's baby/toddler is a true advantage during
challenging weather/natural disasters. I used to mention this at our LLL's
advantages of breastfeeding meetings. Once a mom called me on it, how often
did that really happen?

My daughter was 6 weeks old when the blizzard of '77 hit. The weather
people hadn't a clue (what else is new?) and had originally forcasted 2-4
inches. My husband went off to work and I was home with 2 1/2 year old Evan
and Larisa. We had moved into our new home 2 weeks prior to her birth. I
knew no one in the neighborhood. As the weather got worse, I got very
nervous. I kept wondering what I would do if we lost power, how would I
keep the kids warm, what would I feed Evan and myself. I had myself pretty
well in panic mode(hormones must have been raging). I decided that I would
make a safe warm haven and hung up blankets over all the windows in the
living room, shut the doors to the rest of the house, gathered all the
sleeping bags, quilts and afaghans. I heated up soup and put it into a
thermos, made some sandwiches and settled back to wait for the impending
disaster.

Then the phone rang. My friend Lori, who delivered her second son 4 days
before Larisa was born, was crying hysterically. Seems she saw the same
weather report that I had (and most of the New Englanders) and
thought, "I'll go get formula when my husband gets home this afternoon."
She wanted to know what she should do, did I have any info on how to make
infant formula? Well, of course not! I did suggest that she put him to the
breast to see if there was any milk there. I also told her to call the peds
and the hospital to see what they would suggest.

The next afternoon the ambulance followed the plows to her house. Justin
was hospitalized for almost a week for severe dehydration and seizures. And
to think that I never ever once worried about my baby and what I would feed
her.

I'm sure that the list members have tons of survival breastfeeding stories.
I would love to hear some!

Ellen Penchuk, IBCLC

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