In a message dated 5/2/2007 11:40:43 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time,  
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My plan  is to give this mom the info I have and I guess encourage her  to=20=

follow her gut. Any thoughts from anyone? Any experience with  this? Pleas=
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respond as I could use the support.

Thanks.  Jackie



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with my 2nd pgc, my ob gave me a 'deadline', too. i was nursing my 8  month 
old and he said if i didn't wean by 20 wks, i'd be risking the pgc. i was  8 
wks pg when he told me this and i was devastated. already feeling guilty over  
getting pg again so soon and possibly depriving my 1stborn of precious time as  
the one and only, i was crushed to think of breaking the bond nursing gave 
us.  as 20 wks got closer, i r/m'ed more and more stories my great grandmother 
had  told me when i was young about nursing multiple children and doing it 
through  pgc's. she had 14 children and my grandmother had 10. i began to wonder 
how  women had children close together who couldn't or wouldn't use formula if  
nursing was so dangerous to a pgc...and i discovered la leche league in the  
process. LLL completely reassured me about how minute the risk of bfing really 
 is to a pgc. they saved my nursing relationship w/ my 1st son! and now i've 
gone  on to tandem nurse through my next 4 pregnancies and to nurse 3 after 
the  births. i am 16 wks pg right now and nursing my 1 and 2 year olds. i have  
cramping when i nurse but i always have had this with all the pregnancies 
where  i've tandemed - i thought it was normal b/c i nurse them side by side and  
assumed the stimulation is stonger than nursing just one. i have had very  
minimal spotting as well and only in the 1st trimester of this (my 5th) pgc. not  
sure if any of this helps you...i'd direct this mom to LLL to help her follow 
 her instincts w/ as much accurate info as possible from moms who've 'been 
there  and done that'. 
 
~jacqui gruttadauria, bsw
near detroit, michigan, usa



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