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Hi all, 

Justine - Your breastfeeding questionnaire is great.  I'm 
working my way through it slowly and it is providing me with valuable 
opportunity to reflect on my experience with trying to breastfeed our 
son.  I fed him for eight months and it was always stressful.

I don't think I had good advice from anyone, except 
the local Maternal and Child Health nurse and 
she always made me feel I had done my best and it would 
be O.K. to give up trying to breastfeed at any time I felt I couldn't 
continue.   This helped me keep going more than any of the advice from 
well meaning people who insisted that breastfeeding was the best and only 
suitable nutrition for my poor little baby.  I needed to feel it was my 
choice.

I couldn't find any printed information about breastfeeding 
premmies or anything remotely relevant to the problems I was having.  
Just getting Vincent to open his mouth was a major task, much less 
getting my nipple in far enough - expecting him to suck as well was too 
much to ask.  But we did it one way or another.

I think of all the other 
mothers of little ones struggling without any effective help.  It would 
be wonderful if you could collect and publish the responses to your 
survey - are you planning to do this?  The lactation consultants and 
Special Care nurses need the information as much as we mothers do. I'll 
return the survey  soon, promise

Anne Casey (wife to Gary, mother of 
Jessica and Vincent)

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