Your sil should consult with a good attorney. This sounds like grounds for
a law suit. Until women get up and say NO!, THIS ISN"T GOOD ENOUGH, and
raise holy HELL, as Nikki Lee has suggested, breastfeeding failures due to
stupidity will be nothing that any mismanaging professional will lose sleep
over.
Kathleen
At 09:54 PM 7/13/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>I take no comfort in the fact that last weekend, my sister in law, who has
>been struggling with low milk supply, had to have an emergency D & C due to
>retained placenta - at 2 months postpartum.
>
>* Her husband observed during the c-section that the placenta was friable
>and heard the staff discuss "do you think we got it all"
>* She was visited early on (from day 5 on, I believe) by an excellent LC
>who suggested there were signs of retained placenta and recommended seeing
>the OB, provided her with support in positioning, finally having to resort
>to pumping and SNS with formula
>* She spoke to me regularly, describing what to me sounded like (from
>thousands of miles away) an inordinate amount of bleeding
>* She was encouraged by both of us - repeatedly - to call her OB - who
>said, no, it couldn't be, as she had no fever and no pain
>* Again I encouraged her to go to the ER or to another OB when hers was out
>of town...
>* Her PEDIATRICIAN suggested she had retained placenta
>* It finally got so stressful when I spoke to her, that I had to drop the
>subject...after all, her doctor said everything was OK...
>
>...2 months, a lot of crying by baby ("colic" or "allergic to your milk"),
>a lot of crying by mom (who, of course was told was due to her "postpartum
>depression" and her "emotional state")...she experienced a great deal of
>abdominal pain at 3:00 am - emergency room - surgery - D & C.
>
>She has not experienced an increase in milk supply (she has stopped trying
>to pump - too stressed, and I imagine now very anemic).
>
>So I'm writing this just to stress that yes, a mom can have retained
>placenta while having none of the classic symptoms of fever or abdominal
>pain or even heavy blood clots or "bleeding a pad an hour" ...
>
>Jeanette Panchula
>(A very sad aunt, indeed!)
>
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