Hello,
I want to share this story with my wise lactnet friends for your thoughts or
assistance.  An out-of-state friend called me this evening in tears after
reading a newspaper article of a 31 yr old mother of twins in her area.  The
babies were delivered April 17 or so by caesarean birth.  She returned to
the ER 5 days later with complications.  They wanted to admit her but she
had no one to care for her babies.  A social worker was called and lead mom
to believe that the babies would be returned soon.  She soon discovered that
she would not get her breastfed babies back until after going to court to
prove she was a fit mother.  Her 14 day old babies are now in the state
foster system and in a long process to regain custody.

My friend asked what I could do to help this mother.  I am at a loss, but I
said I would post this on Lactnet to see if anyone out there has some
suggestions or can actually do something for this mom.

The article is at:

http://www.accessatlanta.com/news/1998/05/01/mother_full.html

Thanks,
Deby