,

[Guest guest]

I agree,I like my N.D. better than all the other doctors.

And I love the fact that I can see wants going on in my blood.

I had alot of fugus (clumpt in groups) but my paslma was very clean.

My blood cells were big and fat and real healty. Jim said in all the

blood tests he has done he has only see too other people with as

strong and immune system as mine. One was my father and the other

was a 97 year old lady. I had big white cells that had eaten alot of

the fungus.

Jim put me on amphoteracin B, in pill form. In the IV form it can be

very toxic, but in the pill it is very safe.

I saw the web site for the other product you mentioned, but I have

not tried it.

Love Cricket

[Guest guest]

Cricket your probably right, and I know for sure that things often

come out wrong when typed on a group such as this. I sure am not

having a great day so I apologize if I got out of line, sheesh, I

wish I knew what is going on with me. Hormonal probably, yuck

hugs

In , " cricket5643000 "

<cricket5643000@y...> wrote:

> I think that we have to many well intentioned mothers her. There is

> nothing worse than thinking that someone is questioning your abilty

> to be a good mother. (And we are not) Our fleathers go up and we

are

> ready for a fight. Just wait till that little angle is a teenager,

> and how much advice from others you will get. (and they will all

> have little ones or no children yet)Its enough to make you want to

> put on boxing gloves. I just smile now and say your time is

comming.

> I have a sign hanging in my kitchen that says " MOTHERS OF TEENAGERS

> KNOW WHY ANIMALS EAT THERE YOUNG. "

>

> I'm just rabblings here but I guess the point is we all are mothers

> and we really truely care about each other, sometimes the things we

> type just don't come out the same as if we were sitting together

and

> talking. throwing out idea's, gasping for straws,anything that we

> can think of that might be of help, light the light bulb.

>

> I think your idea about getting your milk tested is a good one,

that

> will ease your mind.

>

> Love Cricket

[Guest guest]

stephanie

Thanks for taking the time to reply to my post. Right after I

posted this message I read the one where you talked about possibly

getting your milk tested and about silicone in formula! Sorry about

that. It seems if I don't read the posts every single day they just

pile up until there are over a 100 to read at once! So I didn't

remember you saying that your baby is 5 months old.

The information that stated that most of the immunity was conferred

with colostrum in the first weeks of breastfeeding was given to me

by my ob/gyn. You've heard differently. It is frustrating that

the vast majority of medical advice and supposed " fact " changes

constantly. I can't think of too many medical issues that there

aren't more than one " truth " floating around about. I have had much

experience in the medical field and can tell you countless examples

of doctor's and researchers stating their medical knowledge only to

have it disputed by another authority or reversed by further study.

So I think for you to say that I am giving out erroneous information

is not fair. I could go to Dr. Mercola's website, but I have seen

him give out info that is much disputed also. Most recently, his

info on Vitamin D and immunity has been hotly disputed on an

autoimmune illness website. A very reputable doctor working with

patients with autoimmune illnesses says that vitamin D is

contraindicated and he takes his patients off of it and then they

improve. Dr. Mercola advocates the exact opposite. Both quote

research to back up their claims. Who is right? We don't know. So

I was stating info I have been given by doctors about breastfeeding

and you then you state info you have been given. It doesn't make me

right or you right--since we can't possibly know other than to quote

someone elses fallible opinion or research.

Further, you said that what I said about bottle fed children was a

fallacious argument. I hope you know that I wasn't arguing with

you. I was only trying to be of some comfort should you decide to

quit breastfeeding. I know that many women are very convinced that

anything less than breastfeeding will be harmful for their babies. I

certainly agree that breastfeeding is what nature intended, but then

nature never intended on people putting implants behind their

breasts. Certainly you can't say there aren't many healthy people

who were bottlefed since much of the population of people my age

were bottle fed. Breast feeding was out of vogue for some reason

when my mom had her children. I certainly wasn't asserting that

bottlefeeding MADE them healthy----only that there were many healthy

people who had been bottlefed. I was not trying to antagonize you

and I am sorry if I did. I just wanted you to know that if your

baby couldn't be breastfed, things would probably be ok.

Also, I have a friend who totally breastfed her son until 18 months

and he had far more allergies and sicknesses than my son who was

bottlefed. (I didn't have enough milk). He was also extremely

colicky. I have another friend who totally breastfed for at least a

year and her child developed asthma before he was four years old.

She was a very conscientious mother about all aspects of child care.

So breastfeeding is not a guarantee of good immunity or a healthy

child anymore than bottlefeeding is a guarantee of an unheatlhy

child.

I feel for you. I know you want to do the best for your baby and

either way, there will be questions to the safety of it in your

mind. It is just that there are virtually millions of people raised

on formula that seem to have done ok, and the number of babies

breastfed by women sickened by breast implants is much less, so not

much is known-- and of what is known, there have been definite cases

of harm caused by breastfeeding under these conditions.

I applaud you for looking so carefully into this situation. It

shows how much you care about your baby's welfare. You have done

all that could be done to try and get the info you need to make your

best decision. And talking to the ps that believe that implants are

harmful is indeed the right thing to do. However, I have personally

been burned by " experts in their field " and so has my motherinlaw.

These were cardiologists, endocrinologists, and other specialists.

What they stated as indisputable was not. As a result, 2 lives were

ruined. And the fact that these plastic surgeons agree doesn't mean

much. Most physicians agree with current thought because they

repeat what they have read and heard, just as we do.

I am just trying to give you things to consider and I do know that

you have been considering this carefully. Only you can decide what

is best for your baby. Sometimes we make the right choice.

Sometimes we make the wrong choice. But mostly, we don't know if

our choices are right or wrong!! There are just way too many

influencing factors in our lives to know the impact of any

individual choice that we make. I hate that. It is alot less

painful to me to suffer myself for the wrong choices I make than it

is to see someone else suffer. That is why I could never be a

doctor. I wouldn't want to be in the position of making life or

death choices for someone else! And yet, we do that all the time--

we just don't know it. We do it when we decide to let our child go

somewhere or do something that ends up hurting them. And in

countless other ways. Obviously, none of us can look ahead and know

which path to choose. I think you know what is best for your baby.

If you have researched it to your satisfaction that is all that

matters. (Even though I think getting your milk tested is a great

idea and I hope you will be able to find someone to do it!) You

sound like a great mom and I wish great success with your baby and

with getting out your implants and getting better!

Hugs, kathy

> > > Reading about Shari's son being sick is very heart breaking.

She

> > is

> > > right in my opinon. You should reach down in your sole and ask

> > > yourself am I wanted to breat feed my baby because I am doing

the

> > > best thing for him or am I being (please don't take this

wrong)

> or

> > > am I being selfish. Am I doing this for me?

> > > It is a mothers moral oblagation to protect there child at

what

> > ever

> > > cost to them. I know that you love your baby with all your

heart.

> > > Why take that risk. Yes your brother had trouble after your

> mother

> > > stoped breat feeding, but that could have just been that he

was

> > > alergic to milk. (My oldest was, made him very ill, had to

feed

> > him

> > > soy milk for years).

> > >

> > > Your milk may be just fine. But what if its not?

> > >

> > > Love Cricket