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T Pitman <[log in to unmask]>
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Wed, 29 Apr 1998 05:35:19 -0400
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I also had my menstrual periods return very quickly post-partum, despite
frequent nursing (no bottles, no pacifiers) and tandem nursing in three out
of four situations. I think it's a genetic thing - my mother told me she was
the same way (yes, she breastfed) and that her mother told her she'd had the
same experience (and my grandmother used to express extra milk and sell it
to the hospital for premature babies -this was in England).

My babies also had a pattern of being very plump and chubby in the
beginning, then slowing down their rate of weight gain. I didn't associate
it as being connected to the return of my periods, but it may have been. My
doctor told me that birthweight does not correlate to adult size, but weight
at one year does. Since my babies were all fairly big at birth (9 lb.) but
their father and I are both small, she said that a slower growth rate was to
be expected. So they all weighed around 20 to 21 pounds at a year, rather
than the "triple the birth weight" you'd normally expect.

I don't know if this is at all helpful. It does sound like her life is
pretty stressful!

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