In December I posted about a mother I was working with who had been diagnosed with possible placenta accreta. The baby is nearly three months old now, receives about a litre of expressed breastmilk each day, and is (of course) thriving. Following a second D & C it seems that the bleeding has stopped - finally - but a further scan showed that there was "scar tissue" on the uterus and the suggestion had been made that if she were to have a period, then this could be "cleared". But in order for this to happen the OB suggested that she would have to wean/stop lactating. She is going for another check up with the OB next week. I reminded mom about the health benefits to herself and her baby of long-term lactation/breastmilk feeding. But in the meantime, just to be sure, I said I would ask the experts their opinion about whether weaning would really be necessary in these circumstances! Thanks in advance and hoping that this is just another of the more exotic examples of sacrificing breastfeeding on the altar of ignorance ... Pamela Morrison IBCLC, Harare, Zimbabwe [log in to unmask] *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html