Re: : awesome doc visit!!

[Guest guest]

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I'm so happy for you being pregnant and all the hard work you've

done. It has been two years hasn't it. I think having your breast

milk tested would be a great idea. I think I understand you'd rather

bottle fed, is that because of the possibility of silicone still in

your system? I for one am totally for breastfeeding if you think its

safe. You must be quite well. Did you ever have fibro? Have most of

your symptoms gone away? Do you feel mostly healed? How is your

pregnancy? How far along are you now. May God Bless you and your

child. I breast fed each of my children 2 years. It was very

convienient and rewarding. My children were very healthy. What ever

is best for you and your baby. I think a schedule is best though and

not demand feeding. I feed on damand, but my daughter did not and

her child is so much better in ways than mine. Alls I did was feed.

She also let her baby cry to sleep, but now it gives her no trouble

to fall asleep. I could never get my kids in bed, well thats an

exageration but her baby goes right down, I mean right down, I would

do that. Hugs,

--- In , " bethlakey " <bethlakey@y...>

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> Why don't you get Dr Shanklin to test your milk when it comes in?

> That way you would know for sure. Besides, I still think you are

> probably an extremely healthy pregnant woman, probably healthier

> than other pregnant ladies. I have nursed and given formula,

> whichever works out best for you.

>

> hugs,

> Beth

[Guest guest]

Dearest ,

You should not feel guilty about feeling safer to bottle fed. I

think I'd have to go that route in with as much as I'm a LeeLeeche

league guru. I breast fed long before implants. As for nipple

confusion I don't buy it. I actually tandom nursed, that means I

nursed two children at once (yeap right through the pregnancy). I'd

probably wean a baby at 18 months now if I did it again but LLL said

it was safe, and it was, however... I did get a breast infection and

had to stop breastfeeding both my toddler and infant at about 1 month

after my second delivery. I had to stop for 1 month until my milk

dried up and put my baby on a bottle. It was heart wrenching for

me. I was bound and determined to breast fed this child, so I

expressed my milk until I got a supply and breast fed her after being

without milk 1 month and she had been on a bottle that month. I

continued to breastfed her for 2 years as well. Just seemed like a

fair thing to do, since I had breast fed the other one that long.

Its all very natural and my kids would have starved otherwise. I

could not afford the formula. My kids never ate out of a jar of baby

food either, never. I fully sustained them for 1 year solid. They

begaan solid foods at about 1 year. That's what LLL recommended. I

had a child that was 100% on the scales and the other was at 75%.

Both of my girls are tall and thin now. The oldest never ate any

sugar and loved vegetables all her life, the younger was given sugar

at about 2 years from some neighbors who thought it was cute (don't

let that happen, of course), but she turned into a little sweet

tooth. She is a very tiny women and is having her second baby at age

21. She breast fed her 1st one like I said on a schedule and feeds

her so healthy.

I wonder though if I would not vreast fed your child for a very short

while due to the immunities in the milk. Say at least a month. What

harm could be done in that short amount of time. Thats the best

milk. How about even a couple weeks. If you do decide to breast fed

it will take some fortitude. It takes nearly a week for the milk to

come in. The first wk. is only clear milk.

, whatever you decide is your decision and I would honor you for

it. As for getting your milk tested before you deliver, its quite

possible you might be able to express some before the baby has even

been born. Try a hot shower and massage outwards, its possible you

could get milk out, very possible.

God Bless,

K.

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