We had a situation last week with one of the Mom's who has a baby in NICU was admitted to the hospital 2 times in past 6 days for engorgement. Her physician ordered Pitocin IV (our pharmacy advised not to give it IM). The first time it was primary engorgement at 4 days. She was using a drug store pump that was ineffective. (Of course she was advised to rent before leaving the hospital). She had small firm breasts and I worked with her with the usual treatments, and got the milk moving. The second time the milk flowed readily with the pump long before the Pitocin was given. Has anyone ever heard of giving Pitocin for this? I certainly have not found any literature supporting this. Does Pitocin act like Oxytocin in the breast? I was unable to speak to the Physician and he is not the type that would take my advice anyway. How tragic for the mother; hospital admission, IV's, for engorgement!! *********************************************** To temporarily stop your subscription: set lactnet nomail To start it again: set lactnet mail (or digest) To unsubscribe: unsubscribe lactnet All commands go to [log in to unmask] The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html