Re: Breastfeeding and medication question

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At Thu, 9 Jan 2003, Heidi wrote: >
>My first child was born ten weeks premature. While she was in the
>hospital, I pumped so that she could receive breast milk. She got so
>used to the bottle that she has been unable to learn to breastfeed -
>I've visited various consultants, nurses, etc with no luck. And so I
>keep pumping - I'm at 5 months now and my goal is to make it to 6
>months. When my milk first started to dry up a couple of months ago, I
>used fenugreek to stimulate milk production. It worked well for awhile
>but then my milk started to dwindle again. A couple of docs told me
>about domperidone, a drug widely used abroad but not FDA approved. I
>went on the internet and bought some from Brazil and initially had great
>results at 40 mg/day. It's starting to slow again and I would like to
>increase the domperidone, but I have no idea what a safe dosage might
>be. The instructions are in portuguese, and I can't read them, and none
>of my docs will talk about it since it's not a US approved drug. Does
>anyone here have any experience with domperidone and have any input? I
>don't want to do anything unsafe, but I want my sweet and tiny preemie
>to have every advantage I can possibly give her... Thanks Heidi

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