Re: [ozmidwifery] Info on Rhesus negative births

[Belinda Brustolin]

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Hi, my 5 month old born with severe ABO incompatability had SBR of 480 at 24 hours of age, off to NICU immediately for treatment which included exchange transfusion, however through out all of this I managed to breastfeed (with 12 hour break for the transfusion and immediately afterwards), Darcy was happy to feed although a little sleepy at times. However staff seemed quite content to tube feed him and IV glucose supplement feed him, so I was a little pushy with breast feeding and turned up every 2-3 hours to do so and under the guise of wanting a cuddle - just happened to try him on the breast! When I got him back after 5 days he soon settled into normal newborn feeding behaviour. I feel for your friend as is so recent for me, encourage her to visit every couple of hours and be a little authoritarian about wanting to breast feed! I am sure if I hadn't been a midwife or an experienced mother (Darcy is number 4) things would have been different. Those feeds were very meaningful to me in early maternal care and protection of my sick baby. Regards Belinda Brustolin, Darwin. ----- Original Message ----- From: Wayne and Caroline McCullough To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Saturday, February 01, 2003 9:39 PM Subject: [ozmidwifery] Info on Rhesus negative births A friend of mine had her baby by C-Section this week due to problems resulting from her being RH negative and her husband being RH positive. She was 37 weeks and the baby has been in NICU since late last night because of severe jaundice (my guess is that's from the operation). She has not been able to hold her baby or breastfeed yet and has had massive headaches, poor thing but I think she is expressing milk so that's a good sign. This is her second baby but I think she also had a C-Section with the first.   We did talk a lot about her birthing options before the baby was born but I am not educated enough on Rhesus factors to know whether or not her C-Section and the separation from her baby was indeed necessary. Does anyone know more about this? I am not going to go and tell her now that it was not necessary if that was the case but I would like to know for my own personal knowledge.   Am planning on calling her tomorrow to see how she is getting on (and how baby is getting on). She is at the Mater Mothers Hospital in Brisbane.   Cheers,   Cas McCullough