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Mon, 5 Apr 1999 17:30:08 EDT
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If a mother is not "allowed" to hold her baby after neural tube surgery, she
can still nurse the baby side-lying, right?  Mom could also "hover", while on
hands and needs, over the baby who is prone.  Baby nurses in both positions
without being held (been there, done that- the latter to try to unplug a
plugged duct) while baby is healing from surgery.
  It bothers me more than I can say when I read that a mother is not
"allowed" to breastfeed her own baby!  Of course, a hospital bed that fits
both mother and baby would help, but I have known many a mother crawl into
those metal cribs in the pediatric ward to curl up and nurse her sick child.
A sick baby or child needs *more* breastfeeding, not less, IMHO.

Lisa Jones, LLLL in Wellington FL

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