Melissa wrote:

>>>From personal experience, twice over, I still had mature milk while
nursing
during pregnancy.  I didn't nurse until late into the pregnancies though
(3
mos into 2nd preg., 5 mos into 3rd preg), so I've wondered if my milk
would
have reverted to colostrum if I had continued or if my new baby would
have
missed out on that and started with the mature milk.  I've also wondered
if
my milk had stayed milk had I kept nursing, would that be a problem for
the
new baby, not having had the colostrum, as in does colostrum serve as a
sort of a primer in addition to all it's known benefits?<<<

I nursed throughout my second pregnancy and then "tandem nursed" for
approx 7 weeks.  My second pregnancy was identical to my first in terms
of weight gain (50 lbs!), birth weight of baby (10 lbs), length of
gestation (42+ weeks), etc.  I was unable to express any milk after about
18 weeks gestation.  At that point, I encouraged less nursing and my
toddler (18 mos when I got pregnant) reduced the number of times he was
nursing until he was nursing only once or twice a day when I was at term.
 I had terribly sore nipples throughout and I felt that "antsy", annoyed
feeling when he'd nurse but I continued because nursing was important to
him and me.  I did have colostrum at term.  After birth, my milk was in
by 48 hours (homebirth, newborn nursing "all the time").  My new baby
regained his birth weight by 9 days of age, a 12 oz weight gain in 7
days.

That's my story, FWIW... :-)

Kathleen Salisbury  ([log in to unmask])
LLL of Gig Harbor and LLL of Port Orchard (WA, USA)
James (2-25-95) and Reed (6-9-97)
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