I have worked with a mother who had open heart surgeries as a child  and 
subsequent surgeries also.  She also had breast reconstruction due to  the lack of 
breast tissue growth of the breast that was most affected by the  surgery.  
Her 'good' breast functioned well enough considering it was also  augmented to 
make the set a match.  Wish they had left the healthy breast  alone of course, 
but she was a young girl at the time and did not know to  consider future 
consequences to her breastfeeding  With her second child  she had substantially 
more milk in both breasts, but the surgery affected breast  still made minimal 
milk.  She breastfed using a supplemental device at the  breast for several 
months, introduced solids at 6 months, cups of supplement  instead of SNS and  
then continued to breastfeed well past one year. 
 
Take care,
Pam MazzellaDiBosco, IBCLC, RLC
Florida, USA



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