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Dear Janet and all,
Just sharing a friend's experience of surgery and
b/feeding - no doubt just adds to the 'common sense' approach being articulated
on the list.
After baby no 3 (all born at home in the US)
midwife notices a goitre and suggests again (as GP had missed it) to seek
medical advice. Large tumour size of a golf ball found on thyroid.
Had only 2 weeks prep time before having tumour removed and radiation therapy
commenced soon after. During radiation she had to be isolated for 2
weeks in hosi followed by a further 1-2 weeks at a friend's holiday farm to
recover and not be near her kids (radiation stuff).
So at 10 weeks Baby A continued to
be breastfed as normal throughout whole hosi stay (surgery part) till
radiation commenced. Her closest friends including sister-in-law who also
had a newborn pumped like mad for the 2 .5 weeks prior to radiation starting
(and kept going) and dad bottlefed bub the truck load of ebm until mum came home
just under 4 weeks later. Baby A took to the breast like a hand to a glove
and Baby No 4 also born at home in water 3 odd yrs later. Mum well -
healed beutifully- no further probs ... thanks to her loving midwife, family and
friends.
Makes you wonder though why they do so many caesers
if a woman can't heal cos she's breastfeeding.......Might be good to write to this OB and thank them for giving us such a
valuable piece of info for the 'campaign'...... :)
Sally-Anne
xo
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