Working as an RN and hospital based LC, my experience is primarily with the
newborn period.  Beyond that I resort to my experience nursing my two
children.  As I was seemingly prone to plugs and mastitis, they did give me
my share (and more) of experiences.  With my 1st child, I had decided that I
was ready to have my body back and tried to begin weaning (probably too
fast) when he was 14 months.  I soon found a plug that would not go away and
resorted to picking it off with a sterile needle (ouch).  I don't know
whether I gave myself a nipple pore infection, or whether it was just a
slow healing sore pore, but it was four months before I could nurse
pain-free on that breast.  Needless to say, I weaned him real slowly when he
was nearly 20 months.  I guess in the end it was really a plus that it
happened, he got to nurse for nearly 6 months longer ( I was too terrified
to try to wean again any sooner, for fear of more problems).  And in the
end, when he began to get ear infections one month after weaning, I later
wished that I had kept nursing.  I became an LC four years later and wish I
knew back then what I know now!

Priscilla Tansley RN,IBCLC
In southern Vermont, where there was a freak thunder storm this morning!

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