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Hi All
We consistently express our women in ICU and the High Dependency
Units.

First is the woman's or her partner's permission and then we use an
electric breast pump as the ICU nurses are willing to express the women
so a midwife does not have to go down to ICU from the postnatal area.
The medical officers are never a problem. The neonatologists will
actually ask for the colostrum if we have not got in first.

It works well. It occasionally back fires as a woman woke up the other
day after recovering from the swine flu and said no I am too sick to
express.
If anyone wants more information please feel welcome to contact me
separately.

Gwen

Gwen Moody
CNC Postnatal Care
Westmead Hospital
PO Box 533 Wentworthville 2145
Phone: 02 9845 6964, 0422212774
Fax: 02 9845 8340
Page: 02 9845 5555 - 01135
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>>> [log in to unmask] 04/09/2009 3:49:55 am >>>
my personal experience: 
I was in the ICU after my first son was born in 2000. I had a
postpartum
inverted uterus with attached placenta, lost "4-5L of blood," and
between
the 7L of IV boluses and the blood transfusions, my eyelids were
swollen
almost completely closed and when I did try to open them, I didn't know
why
I couldn't see anything (I asked if (the babies' ophthalmic)
erythromycin
ointment had been put in MY eyes!)

(after the ketamine hallucinations...yuck), when I was awake/aware
enough to
realize that I was in the ICU, I immediately asked the nurse to call to
the
OB floor to get a pump for me. I was told "it won't matter, you don't
have
anything to give to him." I tried to explain I needed to pump to
stimulate
my breasts for milk production. I was also told if I did get anything
that I
couldn't possibly give it my baby because of all the drugs in the O.R
and
ICU. I refused any more morphine because all it did was put me to
sleep, and
I was determined to get out of the ICU and nurse my baby!  

I was back to the OB floor 16 hours later, immediately put him to
breast,
and never let him leave my room. years of reading lactnet have made me
wonder-I can't believe I didn't have any complications or
breastfeeding
difficulties from the experience. I had a huge supply by the 3rd day
and we
nursed for 2 1/2 years!

vicki hayes, RN IBCLC mom of 3 boys, in chipiona spain 

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