Hi Grace,
Any chance that this mother had (long forgotten) surgery or trauma to her
breasts?
Seems like this milk has trouble 'coming out'........
Just wondering.
Renate Rietveld, IBCLC
Rijswijk, The Netherlands
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At 10:52 7-10-00 -0500, you wrote:
>Hello everyone, I work in an NICU helping mothers of our patients. This week
>I've been working extensively with a mother of a 33 weeker, now 6 days old.
>This mother began pumping (double pump, hospital grade) about 12 hours after
>delivery and for the first 48 hours got not a drop of milk (despite every
every
>two hours pumping). Her breasts looked fuller to me on the second day
however.
>She has no medical problems, takes no meds, no hx of surgery or trauma,
and this
>is her first baby. The next day, she experienced engorgement which quickly
>became severe and we treated with ice, massage, cabbage and she began to
get 1-5
>cc out. Two days later, she can only get milk out with pressing on milk
ducts
>while she pumps and has gotten 15 cc at most, she says the pain is getting to
>her (despite using ibuprofen). She then told me her sister had had similar
>problems and ended up bottlefeeding. The mother experienced increased breast
>size with pregnancy, but no feelings of tenderness. The baby has gone to
>breast, but has been too sleepy to do much yet.
>Can anyone give me some insight on this?
>
>TIA,
>Grace Doolittle, RNC
>Minneapolis, MN
>
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