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Postpartal Care

The nurse is caring for a primipara who delivered her baby yesterday and has chosen to breastfeed her neonate. Which assessment finding is considered unusual for the client at this point postpartum?

ExplanationNew mothers usually begin to produce milk at about the third day postpartum and colos- trum is produced until that time. For clients who have breastfed another infant during pregnancy, having milk shortly after delivery is not unusual. Diaphoresis and diuresis are considered normal during this time as the body excretes the additional fluids that are no longer needed after the pregnancy. Constipation may continue for several days as a result of progesterone remaining in the system, the consummation of iron, and trauma to the perineum.