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Date: | Tue, 25 Jul 1995 15:34:46 -0400 |
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Dear Lactnetters,
Yesterday was quite a day for unusual circumstances. I work at a women's
hospital and see as many breastfeeding mothers as I can in 20 hours / week.
I went to speak to a mother of twins with one in newborn nursery and one in
NICU. She was breastfeeding #2 great, long, frequent, swallows audible, etc.
I asked what her plans were for #1. She then informed me that he had a
cleft lip and bilateral cleft palate. She had not planned to breastfeed him
even when she only knew of the cleft lip.
She had been given the M___-J______ booklet about feeding a cleft baby. She
pumped over the week-end but stopped since she didn't get anything. (No
week-end LC).
She also didn't think she was up to trying to breastfeeding both since she
had heard that breastfeeding twins takes 10 hours / day.
I went to my office and dug up some info from Rental- R____-Up ( one by our
own Marie Biancuzzo), and a booklet from Childbi___ Gra______. I also gave
her information from the National Cleft Foundation.
Any bright ideas for this mother?
TIA
Ginny Jones, BSN, IBCLC
Florence, SC
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