Dear Friends:
    Anything is possible.  As a hospital LC, I  worked with a first time 
mother who had had enormous reduction surgery 14 years  prior to the birth, 
including removal of both areolas. She wanted, and got, a  spontaneous unmedicated 
vaginal delivery in a hospital. (Many of the staff  thought she was weird. Can 
you believe it?)
 
    She asked me about breastfeeding. I told her I had  no idea what would 
happen. I recommended non-stop skin-to-skin and letting the  baby set the pace. 
She took my advice!! (I got to see her twice at home in the  first week for 
follow-up, once as a mother-baby nurse and once as a LC). At  one week, the baby 
had gained weight!!  Today this mother called; her baby  is 16 months old, 
and still nursing.
    
    One never knows, do one? It is always worth it to  aim for the best, with 
follow-up, because there are no crystal balls in this  business.
    warmly,
 
Nikki Lee RN, MS, Mother of 2, IBCLC, CCE
Maternal-Child Adjunct  Faculty Union Institute and University
Film Reviews Editor, Journal of Human  Lactation
www.breastfeedingalwaysbest.com

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