Advertisements
Advertisements
Viewing Single Post
Your post will be very helpful for those who need it! I'm glad to hear of a compounding pharmacy that will do it without charging an arm and a leg! Back 20+ years ago, I hunted around Las Vegas and then northern Utah, after we moved up here, but never found a single pharmacy that would make it for me.
I'm very happy every time I hear about a lactation consultant that knows a lot about adoptive breastfeeding, because some of the things I have heard that moms have been told by LCs blow my mind. There was a lady here who wanted to borrow my Lact-Aids for a few days, because she was convinced that she was going to have plenty of milk. The LC told her to pump for a month and then start taking Reglan, a week before the baby was due, and that would do it. It would certainly be nice if it was that easy, or anywhere near that easy! She didn't see any milk from the pumping and only a few drops from the Reglan.
I had suggested that she order domperidone, pump for however long she wanted to, and then nurse on demand with the Lact-Aid. Had she done that, she would have produced at least a few ounces of milk, but probably half or more of what the baby needed, and the baby would have gotten all the nurturing. Of course, the baby was bottle fed. I never got my Lact-Aids back, either!