Dearest, Rachel, Jaye and Heather,
Please recall I sent this to "Ana"  off line (not) because she asked for help, 
and  when this mom delivers she will have IV's in her hand and won't be able 
to sit up and remove milk herself.  I'm sure there are many  videos better than 
the one i came up with  (for the normaly healthy term infant) but given the 
unique circumstances, this mommy will need someone to help express her 
milk.  Some of you took issue to the fact that she was not doing it herself.  
well, she may not be able to.  fact is she is will be in the hospital in bed after 
a c/s with IV's probably in her hands. A nurse hopefully an LC will be assisting 
her, not to mention all the possible rules and regulations and red tape that 
come with being in the hospital and a baby in the NICU.  The sessions shown 
were from a MD who I don't know, and perhaps her techniques were not the 
same as yours, but with this womans breast reduction and a premature baby, 
with special needs who will need surgery immediately after birth, hopefully she 
will be able to get colostrum/milk to give to her 
sweet baby.  I guess i did not see what you saw.  gentle compression using 
both breasts yeilded colostrum.  yes, it could have been done differently, 
there is no ONE way to express milk with every breast type.  There are only 
techniques. She may have been over exaggerating her motions of pushing in 
around the aereola and compressing it, but she was trying to teach something 
using a live body. Not animation.  I thought the MD was trying to be gentle 
and kind with those women and then it went on to show them giving small 
amts to a baby in SCN.  Which is  the exact scenario of where this baby will 
be.  I thought it was appropriate to give to Ana under these special 
circumstances.  You, of course have the right to your own opinions.  I saw no 
harm and yes some people liked it. If you look for something wrong, you will 
find it.  If you look for the positive useable material you will find that too.  I 
hope we will all be rooting for this mom and baby to survive and thrive instead 
of picking apart a video, that for the most part was hospital based, and 
supposed to be.     I like the rest of you learn something new everyday.  I 
hope Ana can take away the portions she likes, not the part about using this 
for every baby, of course not, but apply to her client what help she may get 
from this video.  Marianne, you can use the link.  It belongs to Stanford 
University.  If you need help with this please feel free to e-mail me off line. 
once again I didn't undelete "to the list".  I think i will remember now.

Best,
robin

up way too early for work.

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