My first question would be: how much skin-to-skin and actual breastfeeding
did this mother do with each baby in those first 30 hours?  If management
was optimal, I'd have a lot of other questions too, but this piece of
information is crucial IMO.

Jessica Claire
LLLL in Los Angeles

On Sat, Mar 12, 2011 at 9:25 AM, Ann Marie Henninger <[log in to unmask]>wrote:

> Archives searched for no colostrum issue...
> Permission to post mom's description below.
> Please reply both off-list and on as I am no mail now.
> THANK YOU!
>
> 34 yo mom G4 P2 due soon with #3
>
> "Labor 1: Induced at 37w5d.  Roughly 14 and a half hours from Cervadil to
> baby.
> Labor 2: Spontaneous.  Somewhere around 9 hours from first ctx to baby
>
> Baby boy #1 6 lbs 11 oz
> Baby boy #2 8lbs 3 oz
>
> Both vaginal births.   First medicated, second unmedicated.
>
> My issue is that my body does not seem to make colostrum.  Both of my
> children have gone almost 30 hours with out passing urine at which point I
> have freaked out. I gave water to bb1 just to get him some liquid and make
> sure they hadn't injured his penis when they circumcised him (which was my
> fear).  After we knew he COULD pee, I switched to formula.
>
> I pumped (double electric) almost round the clock for 5 days before giving
> up.  I never got enough to even coat the bottom of a bottle.
> A day or so later (7 or 8 days past birth time is fuzzy) I felt my milk
> come
> in but  I was done at that point.
> I was dealing with kidney stones, too, and did not feel capable of trying
> any more.
>
> With bb2, I drank dark beer every other day in my final week of pregnancy.
> I started taking More Milk Plus the day he was born.  I didn't go straight
> to bottles, I used an SNS for a few days, but we couldn't get his latch
> right and was only getting formula according to the weight checks my LC was
> doing.  I was mentally beat down by day 5 or so and just quit. My milk came
> in the next day.
>
> I have never pumped past the point of feeling my milk come in so I don't
> know what things are past that point."
>
>
>
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> Ann Marie RN, IBCLC
>
> Our daughter and sister Gianna's web site:
> http://www.caringbridge.org/visit/godsgracefromheaven
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