Just another research cohort of 1 - me!  After the birth of my first baby I
wasn't able to sit up without fainting for 12 hours and walked no further
than to the shower for 2 days.  Nobody mentioned my loss as being
particularly heavy.  It wasn't until on the second day when I was sitting
in bed musing to myself about how my skin colour matched perfectly the
pristine white hospital sheets and mentioned it to one of the nurses that
they did a haemoglobin.  The doctor was rather keen to do a blood
transfusion at that time, but I declined.
Breastfeeding was going beautifully and I continued to have gallons of milk
for months and months and months - a definite oversupply!

Actually I lied about the breastfeeding going beautifully - my nipples were
very sore.  I have a lovely photograph of him breastfeeding, lying flat on
his back head turned over his shoulder to attach to the nipple.  And I was
a midwife at the time!!  That was 20 years ago - I've improved my skills a
tad since then :-)

Denise

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Denise Fisher BN, RN, RM, IBCLC
BreastEd Online Lactation Studies
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