Just as I sat down to fold laundry, I flipped on the daytime soaps and there
is new mother Sheila in the NICU to breastfeed her premie for the first time.
Sheila got some good and appropriate encouragement form the NICU nurse, and
mom and baby had a successful first feeding. Sheila agreed to and is supposed
to be giving this baby up for adoption to the baby's bio father, (whom she is
in love with and had an affair with, without his knowledge I think), and his
wife ( or maybe she still the fiancee, can't keep up very often with the
storylines). So it will be interesting to see how this potentially
complicated legal dilemma is handled. Will Sheila delay the adoption so that
she can continue breastfeeding? Will she bring in some lactation experts to
bolster her case? Will continuing the breastfeeding relationship facilitate
Sheila's ultimate goal of winning over the bio father? Will becoming a mother
and breastfeeding bring out a good and nurturing nature to the previously
devious and dangerous Sheila? Will Sheila develop sore nipples? Guess I'll
have to tune in tomorrow and on a regular basis for a while to follow this
story, just for umm, professional reasons of course. Will the IBLCE give me
cerps for this?

Deb
Springfield VA