In a message dated 4/20/00 3:28:12 PM, [log in to unmask] writes:

<< The physician is still holding all

breastmilk, and the mom is faithfully pumping, and the physician is asking

the mom to start on another round  of antibiotics.  Help, Help, Help!!!

Are there different guidelines for the NICU baby when the mother has

mastitis?  Everything I have been able to read and check on indicates

continue to breastfeed.   Thanks for any insight, or for pointing me in the

right direction.

 >>

Evelyn,
This is the same kind of nightmare we dealt w/ in the NICU at the hospital
where I worked. The problem was resolved when bf friendly neonatologists
stopped culturing the milk. Obviously, the same critters were still there,
but sometimes knowledge is not a good thing.
Jennifer Tow, IBCLC, CT, USA

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