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Date: | Thu, 22 Jun 1995 18:40:40 PDT |
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Hi Cynthia,
I am at your end of the curve too. I naturally go about 2 1/2 years after
delivery before fertility returns. My children (3) are 3 1/2 years apart.
The third one was conveived while #2 was nursing and menses had not
returned--must have been at first ovulation! So that time around I went 6
years between periods. I had someone at the breast for 13 years as I bf
through pegnancies and figured 2 breasts meant easy mothering--one on each
side. My 2 girls self-weaned at age 6 years. I helped my son wean at age 4
1/2. My regret is that I did that. I would not repeat that early weaning if
I could go back.
Since my personal experience is such an outlier for our culture, I do not
share it with patients. I help them with what they want as I strongly
believe that personal experience is strickly that--personal--as far as
patients/customers go. However, I did share my extended bf with a class of
nursing (RN-type!) students when I was giving my introduction several months
ago. I give a 2 hour bf class with each rotation of students in maternity.
I had decided it was time to start normalizing extended bfng. The students
were so shocked that anyone could bf that long that I am now undecided
whether or not to include personal. If even one person was too shocked to
hear what I had to teach, it was not worth it.
Pardee Hinson, MPH, IBCLC
Charlotte, NC
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