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October 24, 2006
Retrospective
So I'm doing this training to be a peer counselor for the Nursing Mothers Counsel of Oregon. It's pretty exciting, and there are many cool women in the training and in the group. I'm a little nervous about answering live phone calls, but hopefully it will get more comfortable.
It definitely makes me think about my experience with Linna more, though. I mean, I know how lucky we were with her, that she was fine, that she could nurse, and all that. But I can't help but look back and wish I had known more about nursing a preemie. I'm not sure why I didn't ask for a book about while I was on bedrest, so I could have been better prepared.
Part of the training involved getting a copy of LLL's "The Breastfeeding Answer Book," which is quite the breastfeeding bible. There's a whole chapter on premature babies, and I learned something new: that studies have shown that breastfeeding is less physically stressful to babies than bottlefeeding, which is basically the opposite of what they told me in the NICU. The procedure was always to try nursing first, then when she pooped out, fill a bottle with the missing amount of breastmilk, and try that until she pooped out. Then do the rest by gavage. I remember that several times I chose to skip the bottle part and go straight to gavage, partly because I was tired myself, and partly because I wanted her to be as well-rested as possible for the next nursing session. So I guess that was the right approach, which is nice to know.
The training is held in a conference room at Legacy Emanuel, so Linna and I were there most of the day Saturday. During lunch we went up to the NICU and got her picture taken for their little "Look who's come to visit" project. It was a little weird to go back in through that door, even though of course I couldn't go all the way in. But I remember it so clearly - the handwashing, the beeping, all of that. Even though we were there such a short time, and she did very well, it was still a hard time.
Posted by ktingey at October 24, 2006 07:05 PM
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