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Dear all,
Here is an email I received today. I have never heard of this, actually, so
I asked the mother permission to post it to Lactnet. Please respond to her
directly, though you could copy it to me if you have interesting
suggestions.
Her email address is [log in to unmask]
>A friend of mine told me you can sometimes take the time to answer specific
>nursing questions for womyn having problems ;)
>
>I am nursing my almost-four-year-old and my 6mo old. i managed through the
>pregnancy pretty well (even with PTL from 19 to 32 weeks) but the nursing
>aversion has kicked in hard since the birth of the wee little one :(
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>My nursing aversion is screamingly high :( I was using homeopathics, but
>have stopped. They WORK on the easy days, but not on the tough ones (i was
>taking sepia 30C 5tabs 3x a day and apis mefillica (sp?) same dosage). I'm
>tied to about 30 pills a day, and it gets tiring.
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>I WANT to nurse my oldest son and he is NOT ready to stop at ALL. but when
>we nurse, i get skin crawlies, hot flashes, irritable, nauseus, and this
>persists for an hour and affects nursing my baby who is 6 mos old(i feel
>the same sensations, just not as strongly) while it fades.
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>But over the last month I"ve found myself lapsing into a resignation that
>he will wean. Some days my skin crawlies are SO BAD that he only gets 2 or
>3 20 second nursings :(
>This just SUCKS. Mother nature blows it on this one - I DO have enough
>calories to nurse 2 babies!!!! Why can't my body understand that?????
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>We'er down to 1-2 1 minutes nursings a day, and he's accepted this
>gracefully, but if there's ANYTHING i could do to supplement my diet and
>help this, i'd be very very greatful for any info you have.
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