RE: Re: nursing WAS --- REweightlifting - transitioning to higher weight/fewer reps

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Christie

> eats

> > more fat and manages to lose fat. Maybe that's what I should be

> doing?

>

> ===========That'd be fine to try.

Laurel: So that would be ok because it isn't induction and I wouldn't

be getting into ketosis?

> ============= Laurel my best suggestions are above and my last yet

> unacceptable suggestion probably is to enjoy your thickness for a

> bit longer until you're done nursing. ;-)

Laurel: You made me laugh out loud!! Yeah, maybe that's what I may need

to do; enjoy my workouts, eat more fat and just chill.

> ============== By the way our babe is 14 mos too when is your babe's

> birthday?

>

> DMM

Laurel: My son was born on August 14, in water, on a hot Texas evening

on my candlelit back porch which was draped in white curtains. It was a

simple, but glorious, unassisted birth. It was a long labor and I ate a

steak at some point before transition. Just before transition I was

euphoric and transition went very well. Maybe it was the steak? (-:

Laurel

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> >> My nutrition makes for great milk, a healthy babe and

> > healthy 43 year old mom, but not a less fat one.

>

> ----->laurel...so you had a healthy baby at 42? were you eating

> WAP/NT-style while pregnant? just curious...

> suze

Compared to the SAD I was eating very NT. Compared to what I'm eating

now it wasn't as NT. Now I eat more liver, get raw milk, and ferment

many of my veggies (delicious!).

I wasn't able to eat NT during the first trimester because of nausea and

vomiting. I heard that there is a researcher that believes the nausea

in the first trimester tends to support the growth of a large strong

placenta. He says this because of experience with sheep! Sheep

farmers are known to put the newly pregnant sheep in less rich pasture

for the beginning of the pregnancy because they think that it makes for

a big placenta that gets well nourished on the good pasture in the later

stages. Maybe? It was comforting to tell myself that feeling like crap

was going to amount to a big strong placenta and the avoidance of toxins

(another nausea theory). I did have a good strong placenta and an

exceedingly healthy babe.

My first child, born when I was 36, was born with a cleft of the soft

palate which was a huge shock to us. (He is very strong, healthy, and

bright other than the problem with the cleft which was repaired at 9

weeks.) We had genetic counseling and there were no signs of any

defects in our large extended healthy families. I clearly recall

feeling very hypothyroid during the time in my pregnancy (7 or 8th week)

when the cleft was forming (the palate not closing). I had undiagnosed

autoimmune thyroid disease which remained undiagnosed for a few years.

I believe there is a link between my son's cleft and my untreated

thyroid, but now that I've learned more I believe there are underlying

reasons for the thyroid disease which relate to stress, over exercising

(aerobics) and bad low-fat nutrition. Of course it didn't help that

until a few months before my pregnancy I smoked and drank insane amounts

of diet pepsi (boo hiss). But I don't think I would have craved those

death dolls if I hadn't felt like I was starving. After my babe was

born I pumped to get breast milk for my son for 4 months and then

couldn't' do it any more. My body was so depleted from the pregnancy,

the pumping, and the efforts to diet post partum, the untreated thyroid

disease that I fell into a depression. No surprise.

This post partum with my last child has been wonderful. Because my body

is nourished I have not had a glimmer of post partum depression and my

energy levels have astonished me. I started back to renovating with my

babe on my back two months after he was born. My emotions have never

been more even in my life.

Laurel

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>>>This post partum with my last child has been wonderful. Because my body

is nourished I have not had a glimmer of post partum depression and my

energy levels have astonished me. I started back to renovating with my

babe on my back two months after he was born. My emotions have never

been more even in my life.

---->laurel, thanks for sharing your experience. how wonderful to have such

a healthy baby in your early 40s and feel just fine yourself post partum! NT

rocks :-)

Suze Fisher

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