Dear Lactnetters,

Yesterday was quite a day for unusual circumstances.  I work at a women's
hospital and see as many breastfeeding mothers as I can in 20 hours / week.

I went to speak to a mother of twins with one in newborn nursery and one in
NICU.  She was breastfeeding #2 great, long, frequent, swallows audible, etc.
 I asked what her plans were for #1.  She then informed me that he had a
cleft lip and bilateral cleft palate.  She had not planned to breastfeed him
even when she only knew of the cleft lip.

She had been given the M___-J______ booklet about feeding a cleft baby.  She
pumped over the week-end but stopped since she didn't get anything.  (No
week-end LC).

She also didn't think she was up to trying to breastfeeding both since she
had heard that breastfeeding twins takes 10 hours / day.

I went to my office and dug up some info from Rental- R____-Up ( one by our
own Marie Biancuzzo), and a booklet from Childbi___ Gra______.  I also gave
her information from the National Cleft Foundation.

Any bright ideas for this mother?

TIA

Ginny Jones, BSN, IBCLC
Florence, SC
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