Subject: | |
From: | |
Reply To: | |
Date: | Wed, 11 Dec 1996 05:59:59 -0500 |
Content-Type: | TEXT/PLAIN |
Parts/Attachments: |
|
|
Kathy,
Your description of the world's most horrible nipple shield
brought back memories. I used one of those with my oldest daughter, now
23, in a hospital in Washington, DC. Catherine was jaundiced and I was
horribly engorged and was given this shield to use. It worked
beautifully and I was so relieved--emotionally and physically. Luckilly
my daughter was the kind of infant that would suck on a doorknob and it
did not interfere with latch once the breasts became softer. She went on
to nurse for several years. I am always amazed that things worked out as
well as they did--this shield really was almost like having a bottle at
the breast! A short session with a breast pump (or hand expression) to
soften the breast would have worked well--who knew?--and the only pump I
remember seeing at the time was the old bicycle horn!
Ruth DeRosa, Frederick, Maryland
|
|
|