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Originally Posted By mimi

I am really interested in breastfeeding. However I am looking at foreign adoption and the child may be 6 months or so. Is that too late? Also how do you get started. The only person I know that has done this had a biological 9 month old when she got her newborn adoptive child so everything went smothly. but what if you don't have a breastfeeding infant at home and have an older than newborn adoptee?

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Originally Posted By D

i don't know enough to tell you about a 6-month old, but I did enough reading/talking to dr. to tell you a few things...

You can pump "religiously" for at least a month before the baby comes, either with our without the help of hormone supplements (prescribed by dr.). OR you can wait till baby arrives and feeding time becomes the "pumping"--may also need to pump in between baby's feedings to get the milk going. Another option in the SNS mentioned above which gives baby a reason to keep sucking--she's getting the formula from the SNS but it "pumps" the mom.

Remember, this won't be enough to be the sole nutrition--especially at 6 months. I'm not even sure how that would work with a baby that old who hasn't done it before? Call the LaLeche League, talk to your health dept., you doctor, etc. When I checked into it WWW wasn't very common yet, but now I'd check there if I were you.

Good luck!

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Originally Posted By D again

I just realized the previous posts were removed, though I have no idea why. They explained the SNS and certainly weren't offensive! Oh well..

That said, I just wanted to say that SNS is the supplemental nutrition system--a tiny tube that is attached to a pouch of formula and also to the mother's breast. when the baby sucks, she's actually getting the formula from the SNS.

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Originally Posted By tami

Mimi, our son came home at 2 months and I put him to the breast. He was not intrested because I did not have much milk. I learned about the SNS when he was 4 months old. I started using it and he has not had a bottle since. He is 15 months old now and I am trying to wean him from the SNS. During his infancy I supplied about half of his needs (breastmilk) and supplmented using the SNS. You can do it too!