Re: [ozmidwifery] repair surgery and bf

[Susan Cudlipp]

just another story to add to this thread. I had a friend some years ago who had a pretty awful forceps birth and sustained a severe vaginal lac - I was there and saw the extent of the damage. She did not heal well by first intent and the whole vaginal wall and peri re-opened. Had to go back in for repair at 3 months, I looked after bub for the day and fed it EBM while she was gone. No-one made any suggestion that she should stop feeding. Healed well after the repair and had 2nd bub a few years later without any trauma. I can't understand the reasoning that this woman should wean her baby in order to undergo repair Sue "The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing" Edmund Burke ----- Original Message ----- From: Sally-Anne Brown To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au Sent: Wednesday, February 22, 2006 2:25 AM Subject: Re: [ozmidwifery] repair surgery and bf 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 ----- Original Message ----- From: Janet Fraser To: ozmidwifery@acegraphics.com.au Sent: Tuesday, February 21, 2006 8:52 PM Subject: [ozmidwifery] repair surgery and bf Hi all, a woman with horrific injuries inflicted during a ventouse has been told she can't have repair surgery unless she weans her 4 month old and waits 3 months. Her labia was torn off on one side, right up to her clitoris and she can barely walk, is on strong pain killers and the only thing she *can* do is bf. Her life has been shattered by this so she really needs surgery. Thoughts, please? TIA, J Joyous Birth Home Birth Forum - a world first! http://www.joyousbirth.info/   Attending births is like growing roses. You have to marvel at the ones that just open up and bloom at the first kiss of the sun but you wouldn't dream of pulling open the petals of the tightly closed buds and forcing them to blossom to your time line.   ~Gloria Lemay~         No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.15.12/265 - Release Date: 20/02/2006 No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Free Edition. Version: 7.1.375 / Virus Database: 267.15.12/266 - Release Date: 21/02/2006