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Date: | Mon, 24 Feb 1997 11:51:36 EST |
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Just thought I would offer my PNS experience in response to Kathy
Auerbach's post...
I did not have a preterm baby ( 15 days late in fact) but had plenty
of reasons for supply problems. Not to get into the gory details but
my father died 6 hours before my baby was born... and my baby was
born (late..) just 3 days after what should have been my last baby's
second birthday (he died 8 hours after birth). So needless to say I
was out of my mind with stress over whether this baby would be okay
and grief over the loss of my father. My house was a menagerie of
relatives as I was my dad's only in-town relative. It was, to say the
least, tremendously difficult to establish a good nursing
relationship. baby diagnosed with FTT at 2 week check... The Nurse
Practitioner was sort of (in my opinion) sacrificing on the alter of
ignorance as she gave me several cans of ABM and told me to
supplement. No way I thought. Baby was 10#2 at birth and 9#15 at two
weeks, appropriate void patterns... so pumping became critical as I
was very adamant no ABM>
I used a Lactina the first week as I was afraid of the PNS> When I
got the PNS, though, there was no difference whatsoever. In fact, I
kept increasing. I use one now (literally, I'm typing while
attached!!) hee hee, and get great results... 20+ oz per day.
So that's my experience. I'm not an LC so my experience may not apply
to preemie moms...but I have nothing but raves about my PNS...from my
freinds who use them, too. By the way, I wrote the ped office an
eloquent letter about how she should have discussed pumping and
alternative methods of feeding (not bottles) to me as I was so adamant
that breastfeeding was how we would feed.
Wendy Funk, MCH Epidemiologist
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