Felicia, scary indeed.

Along a similar line, I proposed lactation support at a medical facility employing OB/GYNs, midwives, family practice physicians and pediatricians.  I was told I should prove a need for lactation support.

I am continually amazed that we prepare for birth but not babies.  Babies are born to breastfeed, and as the surgeon in your story forgot, breasts are borne to nurture children.  Lovers and artists can just get in line.

Susan Johnson MFA, IBCLC, RLC
Salt Lake CIty, Utah USA
Thuwal, KSA

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Yes
- a breast specialist who also knows lactation, that would be a dream. 
I remember reading years ago here on Lactnet someone sending a
lactating mom to a breast surgeon for a biopsy asking for a radial
incision to 'preserve the function' of the breast.  When the mom came
back she was having problems getting milk out of her breast from the
damage done from the periareolar (can't spell today) incision.  When
the referring person called the surgeon back to ask why he didn't use
the incision he asked for the surgeon kept commenting that he did what
he asked - he 'preserved the function of the breast'.  When he was told
but milk was no longer flowing - how was this preserving the function. 
The surgeon answered that the breast still looked pretty - you couldn't
see the scar!

Really scary!!!

Felicia Henry, BCCE, IBCLC
Oxnard, CA************************************



      

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