Commitment, or lack thereof...

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Commitment, or lack thereof...
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Tue, 01-08-2008 - 1:56pm

So I just saw something somewhere else (won't specify where, but I bet a few of you will figure it out!) where a woman indicated that she WAS planning on breastfeeding, but now because of a heated debate about it, she doesn't want to anymore.


Ummmmm, are you kidding me?

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Thu, 01-31-2008 - 3:23pm

That isn't the worst of it by any means.

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Thu, 01-31-2008 - 3:37pm

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Ok, but I think that these discoveries have actually helped, rather than harmed, the improvement of treatment in moms w/ PPD.

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Thu, 01-31-2008 - 3:42pm

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Yeah, my SIL is 7 mos pg, and keeps telling me how she has to get up several times a night to pee, change positions, etc.

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Thu, 01-31-2008 - 3:44pm
Just as a comment, my mom thinks that the hot flashes perimenopausal women experience had a survival reason in long-ago hunter-gatherer cultures. She said that often young women were mothers and pg/nursing, caring for little ones during teh day, and needed their sleep *or* to be ready to care for someone when they were woken. Young men were needing their sleep to go on the hunt. Older men, if still physically able would probably also be taken on the hunt. What about older women? They could still weave, gather berries, bake, etc., but wouldn't have the *constant* child-rearing and night waking/childcare that young mothers with babies would have, so they could actually be ones to "get up out of bed when they could no longer bear the hot flash, wander around the campsite, stir the fire and put another log on, and sound the alarm if anything was out of the normal: preditor nearby, etc.". Since women (in her experience) wake wiht hot flashes every hour or 2 for a while when they are perimenopausal, and are liable to get up to cool off, this could be important at ensureing their survival as a species...the sentinel older women. ;-)




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Thu, 01-31-2008 - 3:47pm

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Yes, this is what was suggested (to me).

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Thu, 01-31-2008 - 3:54pm

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Thu, 01-31-2008 - 3:57pm

Interesting theory, except that in true hunter-gatherer times, people rarely lived past their child-bearing years.

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Thu, 01-31-2008 - 3:58pm

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Oh good Lord,

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Thu, 01-31-2008 - 4:00pm

Oh good Lord,

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Thu, 01-31-2008 - 4:09pm

You're right, it could mess with production. Depends on how sensitive the mom is partly.

I would wait until 8 weeks a) so the milk supply is truely established and b) so nipple confusion is less likely. JMHO.

The other issue is, if mom has to wake to pump in any case, what point is a bottle given by dad? Then they *both* end up feeling unrested. If by letting dad give a bottle she wakes up 3 hours later in splitting pain with mastitis b/c she didn't relieve herself, she'll have to work extra hard the next day and rest more (hopefully with baby's naptimes) so that she cures hereself. Sounds like a bit of a nasty trade-off.

Obviously some moms (me me me!!) are more susceptible to mastitis and engorgement problems but it is something to be watchful for.





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