Dear Friends:
 
This poor mother...........thank goodness she is pumping. 
 
I've worked with women with Sheehan's. There is no way to predict what  will 
happen. One mother I worked with that had a hemorrhage at 2 weeks  postpartum 
got 2 units of blood. She had already been nursing and lost her  supply 
completely. It took 3 weeks to get it back, 3 weeks of initially  non-productive 
pumping and a  s l o w increase in volume. She was lucky and  got it all back.
 
Sounds like that might be a possibility for this woman.
 
I suggest this mother double-pump with a hospital grade pump and get the  
baby s2s as soon as she gets home. The baby will need support, and will need to  
be fed either donor milk or formula while she is building her supply. Perhaps 
a  SNS would help her, get the baby to breast for the best stimulation. 
 
Lots of s2s for this dyad to recover each other and help the mom to rest  and 
recover.  Lots of visitors bearing iron-rich meals: homemade  gingerbread 
made with molasses, eggs (iron in the yolks), organ meats and beef  (if she'll 
eat them), dark green leafy vegetables, cook in cast iron  cookware....and her 
practitioner will probably give some supplemental iron also.  Remember that 
Vitamin C helps with iron absorption.
 
It can take a long time to recover from a hemorrhage.
 
warmly,
 
Nikki Lee RN, BSN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE, CIMI
craniosacral  therapy practitioner
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