I talked to the mother who was told not to breastfeed this morning after
receiving Jack Newman's post.  The situation seems to get more
rediculous.  After talking to me yesterday she went back to the hospital,
told the doctor she really wanted to breastfeed.  After some discussion
the doctor decided maybe the staph wasn't in the milk and on her skin
instead, so she was given antibiotic cream for her nipples and told if
her milk tested negative in five days then she could breastfeed!  Then I
told her that there was at least one doctor in the world who thought she
should breastfeed now, it was quite possible she still might test
positive in 5 days and it was her choice to breastfeed or not.   I didn't
go into the probable waste of her expressed milk because she told me she
thought it possible that might have been necessary because the baby was
quite ill, but she told me she'd thrown away over 80 100 ml bottles! It's
so sad.

Jill Dye, LLLleader, Great Britain

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