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Date: | Sat, 19 Jul 1997 14:48:17 -0400 |
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When we talk in LLL meetings about ways to help get breastfeeding off to the
best possible start, I always mention having "No artificial nipples or
supplements" written on the chart by the baby's pediatrician.
When my first baby was born, I thought that checking off the word "breast"
on the crib card was enough. I was wrong. My little one was given glucose
water in a bottle and a pacifier in the nursery (rooming in wasn't possible
in the first 24 hours as I was recovering from HELLP -or is it HELPP? -
syndrome). Baby was pre-term but needed no special care. Her apgars were
9/9. What she needed, to my mind, was to be nursed and held and kept warm by
her mother. I learned a lesson, and try to pass that on to other mothers.
BTW, next babe was born in a free standing birth center with a midwife. As
I said, lesson learned.
Lisa Jones, LLLL in Wellington FL
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