One woman's experience with breastfeeding and RF (Tammy)Laurel Patterson

[Guest guest]

Tammy,

 

Thanks so much for sharing this!!! For anyone interested in the benefits of

RF during pregnancy and upon childbirth, I invite you to enjoy our free

audio program entitled, " Home Birthing and Raw Food " , available at:

 

http://www.pathofhealth.org/Programs

<http://www.pathofhealth.org/Programs & Events/Special/HomeBirthing & RawFood--O

ct.11.2006CE--PathOfHealth.mp3>

& Events/Special/HomeBirthing & RawFood--Oct.11.2006CE--PathOfHealth.mp3

 

Best to all,

Elchanan

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rawfood [rawfood ] On Behalf Of

Hank@MT

Tuesday, May 22, 2007 6:41 PM

rawfood

[Raw Food] Re: thoughts...questions....experiences....

 

When I had my first daughter my goal was to breastfeed her until she was

about 6 months old. By the time she was 6 months old, I had decided due to

research, that I should at least breastfeed her until 1 year. By the time

she was a year I felt self weaning was the way to go. At the urging of her

pediatrician, I tried introducing different types of baby food a couple of

times only to end up with an unhappy constipated baby. At one year she was

still primarily breastfed and happy, at 2 years she still nursed about every

2 hours. Sleep? Well co-sleeping was the answer to that question. She

weaned at about 4 years when I was pregnant with my second.

 

With my second, I just didn't worry about it. She had a lot of food

allergies so my diet was restricted until she was about a year old. I don't

know what I would have done has she not been nursing. At any rate, she

didn't eat very many solids until she was almost 2. She had a very strong

gag reflex and until she could really eat solids (nothing mashed or pureed)

she couldn't eat anything. She also weaned at about 4. I have to say both

of my daughters are very healthy and independent and well adjusted.

 

Nursing the first one for so long was a challenge, mainly because of my own

lack of confidence in my decisions and beliefs. I joined La Leche League

and made many like-minded friends. Nursing my second daughter was not so

difficult as I knew I was doing the right thing for her. I will say after

they hit 2 I didn't nurse in public anymore, only in the car if we were out.

Mainly because of reading about problems people had with strangers and not

wanting to deal with that. Also, I want to say neither of my children had

bad breath or any kind of body odor until a couple of months after they quit

breastfeeding. Morning breath just never happened until breast milk was out

of the picture.

 

I would encourage anyone to nurse their children as long as they can. As

your child grows and nurses less the concentration of anti- bodies that your

child gets in your breast milk continues. Also, tests have been done on

breast milk of mothers who are tandem nursing (nursing a new born and

toddler). When the newborn nurses exclusively on one breast and the toddler

exclusively on the other, the milk is totally different in the two breasts.

One is exactly what the newborn needs and the other is exactly what a

toddler needs. Our bodies are amazing! Breastfed kids also have a 30%

lower risk of diabetes, childhood leukemia, certain types of cancer, asthma,

etc.

 

Sorry, didn't mean to get on my soap box but breastfeeding your child is

probably one of the best things you can do to start your baby off right. It

is the ultimate raw food!

 

Tammy