Hi all, I had an absolutely wonderful home vist over the weekend. A mom 30
years old first baby 8 days old. Mom reported extreme pain and was so upset
when she called Friday evening that Dad ( a rabi) did the talking for her.
She calmed down and told my she was in awful pain, it hurt the wholetime she
nursed. She had not planned on breastfeeding because she didn't think she
would be able to. So she explained she felt she didn't do as much reading as
she should have. She said that at the age of 16 she had, had a breast
reduction surgery. The baby was 3 weeks early but weighed 5lbs 11 ounces at
birth dropped down to 5lbs 2 ounces, at 5 days was back up to 5 lbs 7 ounces.
Baby had plenty of stools and wet diapers. As we talked further she described
a constant burning sensation on her breast that sounded like yeast we talked
about that. I went to see her Saturday and baby was a bit jaundiced  but
looked like I would have expected and was doing great. Mom was a sore,
cracked, bloody nippled mess. We worked on positioning as best we could. This
moms nipples were repositioned way too high on the breast. Scars run all the
way around nipples, are at 6 o'clock on both breasts running under both to
mid way of underarm,and then back up between both breasts. What I felt was so
amazing is that this is all working, she feels pain so intensely that she's
had to stop nursing for 24 hours to tolerate and went to pumping. Baby is now
taking breast again. And mom after nursing in my presence Saturday was able
to express a good ounce out of one side in 5 minutes with M---- pump , and
almost as much out of the other side. I am so happy for her, parents are so
pleased. Nipples are better and things look good. Weight recheck on Wednesday
of this week. RECANALIZATION!
WOW.
To make my day complete I opened the mail to find a gift certificate to a
Nice Local Resterant, large enough that I can take my husband there for his
birthday next week. This was a gift from a mom I've had  as client in the
past who called in tears last week,with new baby and engourgement, we talked
things through and she's doing fine now.
 Dee Keith, IBCLC< LLLL<MOTHER of Ten BF children.