Calling all Lactnetters anywhere near Germany!!! My daughter Miranda lives in Jena (former East Germany) about 3 hours northeast of Frankfurt. She is pregnant with her first child, due July 4th (so she's at 32 weeks). She is currently in the hospital because she has been having very long (10-20 minutes duration), very painful contractions for several days. Her uterus gets rock hard for 10-20 minutes at a time. They have her on magnesium and pain medication and the contractions have calmed down a lot. She is worried because they said if the baby is born early, it will have to go to a NICU on the other side of Jena, and stay there until it weighs 2500 grams, which might be 2-3 weeks. Current estimate in 2000 grams. She doesn't want the baby to have formula, but feels like she will not be able to prevent the baby being given formula if she is not there, and the NICU hospital doesn't have any place for her to stay. Miranda speaks very good German, but her husband does not, and she says the doctors and nurses are very authoritarian and not good at sharing information or discussing options with her. So, if there are any LCs or LLL folks anywhere near Jena, Germany, who would be willing to run interference at the NICU should it become necessary, to prevent the baby from getting any formula. . . . please let me know. I am flying over on May 25th. Please write back by private email, as I am nomail on LactNet for now. Thank you everyone. Kathy Dettwyler *********************************************** 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(R) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html