Pst writes:

a person  with burns needs extra calories to heal, it's an astronomical # 
:-(   Perhaps some tinkering with pumped milk ala Rush NICU, plus some 
fortifier  a few times everyday, will be enough with ad lib  nursing. 


Pat,
Agreed. It's moot now, by the time the mom and I even got to talk, she had  
started the bottles of her expressed milk with the fortifiers. I learned more 
of  this sad situation: baby was burned over a week ago, deep second degree 
from  what she describes, and has not healed well thus far, will now need a skin 
graft  over the mandible where the burn was deepest. I gave her tons of 
support to keep  nursing and pumping ( they are alternating each feeding), going 
with the baby's  "regression" to nurse every 2 hours instead of every 3-4, for 
healing, both  physical and emotional, and we went over paced, upright feeding 
to keep as much  of a relaxed, but active feeding thing going during the 
bottlefeeds. I ran over  to her apt. to give her inlaws the bottle I hope will work 
better than what they  have in the hospital just now and she will have it in 
an hour. I figure it's the  least I can do in such a tragic situation. 
I never got responses from the docs I reached out to, so thanks for your  
response, Pat. 
 
Peace,
Judy



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