It's been a busy week where I work.  Today a rather harried colleague asked
my help with a mother whose baby had been nursing eagerly since the first
time she saw a breast, which was a few hours after the emergency cesarean
Wednesday night.  I mean EAGERLY - I was going to help the mother BF in a
chair for the first time yesterday and before I even realized she had bared
her breast, the baby was latched.  Baby seemed unsatisfied and impatient
today so someone suggested pumping 'just to see' how much milk there was.
Enter the IBCLC, who is sent to investigate the reason for there being 'zero
drops' of milk coming out.
On entering the room I was struck by a strange, continuous hissing sound.
Nothing was coming out of the breast, but that was only to be expected since
the valve for attaching a second collection set was open, but there was no
collection set attached.
Hand expression revealed what you'd expect: abundant colostrum.  Closing the
valve on the hose solved the 'zero drops' problem.  My colleague was
slightly embarrassed but mostly just very relieved, and we all had a good
laugh.
Rachel Myr
facing a hectic weekend in the trenches in Kristiansand, Norway

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