well… it is official…
Simon and I both gave in some texts about our experiences with breastfeeding…
me from the experience of nursing one.. then two.. and then three…
and Simon wrote about his perspective also…
We found out a while ago that they had been accepted but now everything is official and we have been invited to the book launch on Oct 5th…
it will be in book stores after that!
Pretty cool… it’s even on Amazon!
no I am not pregnant 😉
but today… just a few days shy of Khéna being 17 months I got my first PPAF… (Post-partum “Aunt-Flo” for those that are not familiar with the lingo)
With the firt two boys I got my PPAF at about 9 months… when they started to walk and nurse less in the day and started eating solids… With Khéna though, he did not slow in nursing at all when he started milestones… he didn’t have those normal periods where he was more wakeful at night either…
But slowly, he has been nursing less and when I got really crampy and irritable at the begining of the week, I knew that it would not be long…
the bloating could also be a reason that the scale showed so much of a difference as today I am now 5 lbs less then I was when I weighed myself on Wednesday…
Though I do and did enjoy the time that I don’t have to go through the monthly rituals… I do have to say that being able to start charting again and knowing what my body is doing makes things a bit easier for me…
Maybe one day I would like to have another child but I don’t think it is the right time at the moment… I want the boys to grow a bit before…
you can’t see the baby anymore…
you call out and he doesn’t come and then you start asking the older kids where he is and are about to get up to look for him only to realize that to get up and look for him you would have to unlatch him and put him down….
I have talked about this a few times already here on my blog…
Why is it that the breastfeeding is always compared to Formula in a way that makes is sound like Formula is the norm and that breastfeeding just better… It makes is sound like yeah sure breastfeeding is great but Formula is good enough… and of course no one is perfect so really why breastfeed?
The problem is… Breastfeeding is the norm… Formula can be dangerous and the choice between breastfeeding and Formula is not a simple choice to make, children die because they are not breastfed, really it should not be a choice at all… we need to make the language reflect that.
Here is a Hathor comic that is a great example…
(oh… and just a disclaimer… I got a few comments and e-mails from some moms who seem to love to hate this blog…Though I do believe that it should not be a choice, I do know that Formula is sometimes that lesser of two evils and that the choice is made for moms. However, that being said, in many or most cases, that is where education of doctors and nurses need to come in because they often have no clue about breastfeeding and often the children that can be hurt by formula the most are being hurt… also milk banks should become more widely spread and availible, so that more children will not suffer the effects of a lack of breastmilk.)
One of the myths I hate because it is so believed….
“I don’t want to breastfeed because I don’t want my breasts to sag”
“My breasts were down to my knees because of breastfeeding”
It has always been a myth, breastfeeding does NOT cause sagging, but so many insist that it is true…
maybe now they will listen…
ScienceDaily (Nov. 5, 2007) — Nursing mothers needn’t worry. A new study shows that breastfeeding does not increase breast sagging. University of Kentucky plastic surgeon Dr. Brian Rinker and his colleagues conducted the study with patients at UK HealthCare Cosmetic Surgery Associates. The study found that breastfeeding does not adversely affect breast shape.
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The results showed no difference in the degree of breast ptosis (TOE-sis)– the medical term for sagging of the breast–for those women who breastfed and those who didn’t. However, researchers found that several other factors did affect breast sagging, including age, the number of pregnancies, and whether the patient smoked.