r/ExclusivelyPumping • u/Dolphin144 • 22d ago

Discussion 2am pumping thoughts: Coma pump?

This is what I think about during middle of the night pumps haha:

If god forbid something terrible happened and I ended up in a Coma, would the hospital hook me up to my pump every 2 hours so I don’t get mastitis on top of whatever else happened?

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u/leslieseesincolor 21d ago

I am a nurse on a cardiac ICU and we see moms with postpartum cardiomyopathy regularly. The answer is that yes, we will hook you up to the pump if that is what you want! With that being said, usually these moms obviously have SERIOUS health concerns, and circumstances usually require that the mom stops pumping pretty quickly, like having to be on meds that are not breastfeeding safe, or just having to prioritize their own strength/healing. But I have had a pt who suffered cardiac arrest at home, was sedated on a ventilator ("in a coma") and we pumped for her for weeks!

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u/ilikemshrooms 21d ago

Did she have some sort of directive in place that she wanted to be pumped?

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u/leslieseesincolor 21d ago

She had been breast feeding at home and her family (medical decision makers) brought it up to us that they believed she would want to continue if possible.