I have been hunting for days for a little story I wrote regarding late
latch.  Still can't find it.  If anyone has some kind of program that will
look through all the files on your computer for a particular "string" I
would sure like to know about it.

RE: Late latch:   I had a mom who's baby had transient tachypnia of the
newborn (TTN) and had to be flown out.  Of course received bottles in NICU
and got nipple confused.  He came home at 5 days, and refused the breast.
Mom cup fed him using a medicine cup.  He gained a pound over birth weight
in ONE WEEK.  She continued cup feeding and offering the breast for another
2 wks.  She even had him nurse on another mother a couple of times, which
he did fine, just wouldn't take her  Finally got sick of it and gave him a
bottle with EBM, pumping every 3 hrs.  Copious milk supply.  She quit
offering the breast at 4 wks because she was tired of feeling rejected.
Anyhow, she offered the breast at 6 wks and HE TOOK IT!!!  She called me in
tears, so happy she was crying.  I cried too, and got goose bumps.

RE: Depo - I hope folks out there don't hate me, but I work in an area that
is extremely fertile, with little education and not uncommon to deliver the
4th baby of a 21 yr old.  So I often give Depo before the mother leaves the
hospital.  No problems with milk supply.  Problems here are more in the
area of going back to work or school and don't want to hassle with pumping,
or the father doesn't like it, or she is so stressed that she can't keep
her life together enough to continue nursing.  Rarely quits due to poor
milk supply.

RE: Cup feeding:  I have my newborn orders read (in caps) absolutely no
rubber nipples of any kind without calling me first.  Consequently, I
rarely have a baby that won't latch.  The nurses are given carte blanc to
supplement with cupped sterile water, and most of them are really good at
it, and they teach the mothers, or I do, if the baby seems a bit dry and /
or fussy before milk comes in.  In fact, one of the (initially) most
resistant "old" nurses (you know who I mean - been there since the ark),
actually cup feeds ABM babies at times if the baby can't seem to get the
hang of sucking !!!!!!!!!!!!!  I just have to laugh, as they were sooooo
worried initially that "their" babies would aspirate and die with this
crazy new fangled crap the midwife was insisting on.

Sorry this is so long.  Been storing it up for a while.

Jude Kurokawa, CNM
Wolf Point, MT
Mailto: [log in to unmask]
A Coyote midwife sits by the hole and waits....

Only Cowards cook on low.

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