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Fiona & Steve Dionne <[log in to unmask]>
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I donated milk privately to one woman who had had a reduction (she lives
about 8 hours away from me by car:  we shipped milk overnight on dry ice
mainly) for 8 months for her son (who is now 14 mos).  We met over the
internet, and I had HIV and hepatitis b and c blood tests taken to give
to her (the results).  Before finding out that status (negative, of
course), she pasteurized to be on the safe side...

I found it interesting to "work with her".  Of course not having had a
reduction myself, I don't know as much about it as she does now, but I
certainly spent a while on the phone with her in the first few weeks,
with encouragement.  She had had a very long labour, had passed the baby
to someone else after the first nursing, and had slept for a while when
it would have been optimal to nurse more.  Baby ended up sleepy and
dehydrated, and they finger-fed for a while.  She says, with hindsight,
if she had to do it over again, she would use Avent bottles to begin
with to get the weight up fast, and get his energy up fast.  Well, if it
were to happen for another, she now knows how to use a supplementer at
the breast, and would likely do so to begin with, but at the time, she
didn't have the experience, and couldn't latch with the supplementer. 
She ended up finger feeding for about 2-3 weeks, which she says was slow
painful process, taking him a LONG time to eat.  She thinks he'd have
gained back faster and been energetic enough to nurse faster had she
used bottles.  Who knows, this may or may not be true, but that is her
thought.  He is now almost exclusively nursed (with a supplementer, now
alternating between goat's milk and water in the supplementer), along
with solids and sippy cups of water of course.  Bottles were phazed out
a long time ago for the most part, though he still does get one of
goat's milk on occasion if she's out and Dad is with him.

Anyhow...thought I'd mention that there is a website out there
(http://www.bfar.org) for BFAR's (breastfeeders after reduction).  Part
of it is accessible to the general public, and there is a mailing list
for information to do with BFAR which is also open to the general public
(there are 2 private lists as well for BFAR's only).  There is even a
book now available (I think it is published by the LLL publisher) to do
with BFAR.

Fio
ressource person with Allaitement Québec
Nursing Mama to Sandrine, 24 mos
and
#2, 11/2002

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