Moms have some funny ideas. The more experience I get, the more I realize how important the work you do is.
Yesterday, for World Midwives Day, I went to see an Austrian documentary film called "birth-move-ment". It was very, very interesting. Afterwords, the discussion between the filmmaker (who is a Viennese midwife), another midwife, a midwife trainer, a doctor, and a representative from the health insurance industry was just as interesting. The audience was 90% midwives.
The general consensus is that birth support in Germanic-speaking countries has a long way to go - although it seems to be way better than the experience you report locally. By the way, my midwife tells me that during Communist East Germany, the laws here were the same as in Hungary....
Speaking of LCing, I am picking everyone's brains at this point -- what would cause sharp, burning nipple/breast pain especially after nursing? Yeast? A blocked duct? Both? Anything else? (Mine has resisted 10 days of antifungal medication, and is moderate when I'm on antibiotics and then extremely painful when I've got mastitis and the pain is mostly in the same place in all cases).
I had an ultrasound during my last infection and the doctors found no signs of abscess.
The pain isn't quite where the scars are -- it's a bit beneath the scar line and also some ways away. Of course, my nerves might be slightly offkilter too as many were severed and had to regrow post-op.
There's a lot of small lumpiness along the scar line (scar tissue) and then other lumpy spots -- I make sure the other lumps dissipate in the course of feeding her. They usually do.
The LC I was talking to was someone in training; she was someone who needed experience working with a breast-reduction person, not someone who already had any. :-/ I've asked on the Breastfeeding After Reduction forums but the ladies there haven't been much help.
Try the mailing list, there MUST be some among the hundreds of IBCLCs who have experience with post-surgery nursing problems... let me know if you find anything!
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Yesterday, for World Midwives Day, I went to see an Austrian documentary film called "birth-move-ment". It was very, very interesting. Afterwords, the discussion between the filmmaker (who is a Viennese midwife), another midwife, a midwife trainer, a doctor, and a representative from the health insurance industry was just as interesting. The audience was 90% midwives.
The general consensus is that birth support in Germanic-speaking countries has a long way to go - although it seems to be way better than the experience you report locally. By the way, my midwife tells me that during Communist East Germany, the laws here were the same as in Hungary....
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Thank you. :)
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The pain isn't quite where the scars are -- it's a bit beneath the scar line and also some ways away. Of course, my nerves might be slightly offkilter too as many were severed and had to regrow post-op.
There's a lot of small lumpiness along the scar line (scar tissue) and then other lumpy spots -- I make sure the other lumps dissipate in the course of feeding her. They usually do.
The LC I was talking to was someone in training; she was someone who needed experience working with a breast-reduction person, not someone who already had any. :-/ I've asked on the Breastfeeding After Reduction forums but the ladies there haven't been much help.
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