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There are homeopathic remedies to help with milk production also to help with sore nipples etc,first baby is hard to be relaxed and it can be daunting that what I found but I am currently nursing no 7 and my only advice it try and relax and not listen to all horror storiesLet your email find you with BlackBerry® from VodafoneSender: mb12valtrex Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2012 06:38:28 -0700 (PDT)To: <mb12valtrex >ReplyTo: mb12valtrex Subject: Re: Cross Post: Breastfeeding Contact & join la leche league- they know it allSent from my iPhone Hi Everyone,My daughter is due to have her first baby in December.She plans to breastfeed (yay!)What are some things she can do now and after the baby's birthto ensure good milk production/latching?(I was a freaking cow - milk came very easy for me. It's not something I had to work for.)She worries (which doesn't help). I think if she is proactive, it will help physically and mentally.I'd love to hear what everyone has to share.Thanks!Tammy TODAY(Beta) •

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Tammy,

Some REALLY GOOD articles on this subject that I've saved on my favorite posts

spreadsheet...enjoy! I had a TOTALLY different experience w/my daughter's

pregnancy & delivery than w/my sons. Yes, some of it was I was more confident as

a 2nd time mom....but even more I had start biomed on my son so I'd gained many

natural things to do to improve all of our overall health....though I wish I'd

had some of the info that I'm sending you below. Extra Probiotics prior to

delivery are a MUST (my daughter had the most beautiful skin...NO thrush either

in her or transferred to problems in breastfeeding). Extra good fats are a

MUST...purified CLO during pregnancy & breatfeeding...good fats feed the brain,

eyes, skin of the newborn. DrK below also recommends Chlorella & Xylitol

gum....COOL info, check it out below!

From this group, there is a thread with GREAT info starting w/message #76354

which I posted in answer to a breastfeeding thread on Oct 19, 2009, from there

see #76355 w/a link Jane did in a reply post, & a follow up in message #76425

which includes a MUST read link....which is so good I'm coping it below for you

as there is truths ALL of us can learn from throughout Dr Klinghardt's advice:

http://www.klinghardtacademy.com/Articles/Advice-for-Parents-to-be-Pregnant-Wome\

n-etc.html

" Advice for parents-to-be, pregnant women and their partners - and

those who take care of them

Dietrich Klinghardt, MD, PhD Medina, WA 4/4/04

In a few weeks time I will be a father for the first time. I am well over fifty

and feel quite ready for the upcoming changes in my life - and the

responsibilities that come along with parenthood. Upon reflection, I realize

that there are advantages to being a `late' father. I have learnt many lessons

during my 30 years of medical practice. Lessons to do with conceiving a child,

guiding a mother safely through pregnancy, the birth process itself and the many

obstacles and problems that face a newborn.

In this article I want to summarize my most important learnings, so that they

may be helpful to people who intend to have a child; those who are already

pregnant or those of you with young children.

Conception: in the last 50 years the sperm count and quality has

significantly dropped. Inability to conceive for both maternal and paternal

reasons is rapidly rising. I have helped many couples conceive by using my own

technique of biofeedback testing as an additional diagnostic tool – autonomic

response testing.

In Autonomic Response Testing the body is stressed or challenged with different

stressors and the response of the autonomic nervous system is observed. In

general I use muscle tone testing as biofeedback mechanism. The results are then

interpreted accordingly and generally lead non-invasively to an exact diagnosis.

Here is a brief list of common reasons of infertility that we found with

Autonomic Response Testing (and treatment of which lead to successful

conception):

* Abdominal scar tissue (treated with neural therapy). Appendectomy and hernia

scars are worst – they often block the motility of the female tube, decrease

blood flow in the uterus and decrease sperm production and quality in the male.

* Chlamydia Trachomatis: commonly under-diagnosed, and one of the most

common reasons for not conceiving in the presence of normal hormonal

tests. Often the tubes are open, but their motility is impaired. Common lab

diagnosis is often false negative. After my diagnosis with Autonomic Response

Testing, both partners are commonly put on Doxycycline, starting the week before

planned conception and for 2 weeks beyond. It is hard to eradicate Chlamydia as

it can only be temporarily suppressed with antibiotic treatment. Enderlein

therapy succeeds but takes longer (Pleo Fort, Pleo Nig and Utilin are the most

important).s

* Sperm allergy: The male partner collects his sperm in a jar and we work to

establish whether or not there is an allergy using Autonomic Response Testing.

Desensitization is successfully performed with Mental Field Therapy. Others have

reported success with anti-allergic cough syrup or NAET. Longterm treatment with

Pleo Sancom leads to a decrease in allergic oversensitivity, which also relates

to mold and other allergies

* Low sperm count: we could show that special preparations of chlorella

pyreneidosa (I use only " Ka-Tox Chlorella " which is grown, cracked and prepared

in a different way then other products) and have dramatically and successfully

increased the sperm count in affected men.

* Toxicity: this is in my experience definitely the most common cause of

infertility in both sexes. A good detoxification program using NDF,

Chlorella, Phospholipids with EDTA, sauna therapy, lymphatic drainage and Tim

Ray's biological terrain management are a must. Our omprehensive protocol on

toxicity and detoxification will be covered at our Seattle seminar on July 30th

- August 1st 2004. Removal of amalgam fillings and root filled teeth may be

required to conceive, especially for the mother. It is much easier and safer to

detoxify a mother before she becomes pregnant.

Other factors involve food allergies, unresolved emotional trauma, poor dental

occlusion and geopathic or biophysical stress.

Intrauterine problems:

Toxicity: during pregnancy and breastfeeding large quantities of toxins, up to

one third of the mothers total body burden, are passed on to the fetus.

Dental practices should warn mothers not to have mercury containing silver

amalgam fillings placed during pregnancy. We know that a filling outgases 50% of

its high mercury content over the first seven years of its existence.

But, what about the mothers that have fillings?

Fillings should, ideally, come out before conception. If the mother is already

pregnant, the fillings can be safely removed, provided they are removed by the

few dentists that know how to do it correctly (trained by IAOMT). The mother's

body uses the unborn baby as a garbage can. Nature always favors the survival of

the elders over the young ones. It is absolutely important and correct to

attempt to detoxify a mother during pregnancy rather then accepting the risk of

not detoxifying her. I use chlorella, NDF, electric foot baths and other safe

treatment protocols to pull toxins from the mother's blood without interfering

with nutrient transport or uptake.

Nutrition: we know that the baby of a mother that has low folic acid levels

before pregnancy has a higher risk of being born with spina bifida or hare's

lip. Adding folic acid to the diet after becoming pregnant may be too late. I

have all my female patients on 1-2mg of folic acid, since it also prevents

cervical dysplasia to a high degree.

We know that it is no longer safe eat fish, especially tuna and other fish

higher up on the food chain where contaminants are concentrated more then a

million times. Some fish oil producers (i.e. Nordic Naturals and Carlson's) use

a proprietary process which removes mercury and other metals.

However, they do not necessarily remove PCBs and other chemicals. Good

fish oil is absolutely necessary for the child's brain development. Studies

indicate that; if enough fish oil is consumed in the last trimester, the child

is more intelligent and has less chance of developing neurological disorders.

The mother benefits too, by having less of a chance of developing eclampsia or

preclampsia, less post partum depression and less complications during

childbirth.

In addition, a number of papers have shown a great reduction in pregnancy

related complications simply by taking a daily multivitamin. Both Italian and

German studies suggest strongly, that L-Carnitine (2 cap 3 times/day) make a

huge difference in outcome. Complications during pregnancy as well as labor are

greatly reduced. The child is often larger, healthier and more intelligent later

in life. A Finnish study on 169 children from the University

of Turku demonstrated how tooth decay in young children can be prevented:

if the mother chews streptococcus mutans killing xylitol chewing gum 3

times per day during the pregnancy and for one year afterwards, the child has

virtually no tooth decay until age 5 (as compared to a group that had regular

fluoride or chlorhexedine treatments).

WHO estimates that the world IQ has declined 10-15 % in the last 15 years due to

malnutrition. The study did not exclude tests taken in the US population. Lack

of vitamin A, Lithium, Iodine and Fish-oil are most strongly linked to the

decline.

Toxic building syndrome: many US homes are toxic. Most common is

electro-smog from cell phone towers (Microwave), poor electric wiring in the

home or nearby power lines. Cordless phones have emerged as a major stressor in

recent years. I often send one of my associates with appropriate measuring tools

to the homes of my patients who are either chronically ill, have trouble

conceiving and where a pregnant couple lives. Most patients sleep in

electrically stressed environments. It is often the cause of childhood asthma,

eczema, hyperactivity and other behavioral problems and the cause

of more severe illnesses in grown-ups.

For example; I recently examined a mother with brain cancer and found out that

she was sleeping in an electromagnetically contaminated environment.

She moved her bed and within 6 months and the cancer disappeared with no

following relapse. No other treatment was used. Four years later I received the

message that her 6 year old son had died of an identical brain cancer.

What we later found out was that the mother had put her two year old in the same

sleeping location that she had just moved from. Four years later this child

died. She thought electromagnetic stress would not hurt her child.

This issue is virtually absent at both conventional and alternative medical

seminars in this country. Often we advise to turn off the fuses for the bedroom

with excellent improvement s in health related parameters. My patients are not

allowed to have cordless phones in the home. They broadcast a highly disturbing

biological signal to anything `alive' within a large radius for 24 hours. This

article does not allow space to discuss geopathic stress, which is an

independent potentially catastrophic phenomenon.

Other sources of stress in a home include outgasing from carpets, paintfumes and

from biotoxins found in mold. I send mold cultures to a lab for evaluation and

desensitize the patient using the Pleo fungal products which work beautifully.

Carpets have to leave the house unless they are non-toxic (which is rare).

Lately, several studies have shown that flame retardants (PBDs and PBDEs) were

found in most mothers' breast milk. They retard also the development of a fetus

or a newborn child and are involved in the causation of many neurological

illnesses and cancer. PBDEs are found in all

upholstered furniture, some clothing and toys – required by law. The highest

levels are found within 6 months of new purchase. The flame retarding effect is

gone after 6 months, but the PBDEs stay in the tissues of a mother and child

forever. This is an issue relevant to every reader of this paper.

Cosmetics: Over the last 20 years, many publications have shown that

almost no cosmetic product is safe. The FDA poorly regulates this industry and

special interest has stopped the propagation of the critical literature. A

medical colleague of mine from Germany published a book on the cancer causing

effect of under-arm deodorants. He lost his medical license and his house was

burnt down. This was 1997, not 1937. In December a British biologist from

Redding, UK confirmed his findings: there is a huge link between the use of

parabens in deodorant sprays and the development of

breast cancer. I must stress that this is a much stronger link then the link

between HRT with estrogen and breast cancer.

I advise all my potential and de-facto mothers to avoid all cosmetics and

recommend non-toxic cosmetics that are supplied by a small company that I work

with. It is limited though. Remember, any toxin in a mother is found in her baby

at an even higher concentration. Incidentally, there are currently no commercial

laboratories where you can send in a mother's breast milk to assess the level of

toxic and environmental toxins. Medical toxicology has to be one of the most

important diagnostic tools for us in order to save our future.

Sauna therapy is a great method to reduce the body burden of both chemicals and

cosmetic residues, but is not recommended during pregnancy.

Allergies: if a mother is sensitive or allergic to certain foods, but continues

to eat them during pregnancy, the child is four times more likely to develop

allergies in his/her life. Asthma, eczema, hay fever, hyperactivity (some

types), gluten and gliadin sensitivities with or without colitis are all part of

this symptom complex. For the mother to avoid those foods, fragrances and skin

contacts they need to be diagnosed first. Lately, blood tests are shown to be

quite unreliable (see Townsend letter/Allan Gaby). Clinically we have

excellent results with Autonomic Response Testing testing and, based on the

results, we can diagnose allergenic substances and advise the mother as to what

to avoid. These babies turn out to be quite different: they are born bearing a

smile.

Neurosensory stimulation: Tomatis and many other researchers have

demonstrated that children can be made more intelligent later in life by

stimulating them appropriately in utero. Mozart Music, transabdominal light

stimulation (Dinshaw method), transabdominal touch, dancing and maternal yoga

have all been shown to contribute to a neurologically healthy baby. Our unborn

baby loves it when I play guitar and sing. It punches Johanna's belly from the

inside in the correct rhythm. It also responds to my touch: when I tap 3 times

on the belly, baby taps back… 3 times.

Psychological Interventions: I use mental field therapy, a method

composed of many different disciplines of thought in energy psychology – taught

to physicians all over the world for over fifteen years. It involves focusing

the mind on related issues, such as, for example, painful images of childbirth

relayed by the client's mother, traumatic sexual experiences.

Working with a mind focusing on these issues, we stabilize the client's energy

field with a meditative technique and simultaneously tap those acupuncture

points which are related to the stressful memory. I found that every cramp,

every bout of nausea, excessive fatigue and a variety of other pregnancy related

symptoms disappear within minutes using this approach.

It may involve uncovering painful experiences from the past. Sometimes the

dysfunction is just in the energy field without any particular content attached

to it.

I have learned a lot from the perinatal psychologist Chamberlain's -

Babies Remember Birth. Chamberlain compiled the evidence, that the baby is a

conscious sentient being from the moment of conception. As adults we are able to

retrieve, in hypnotic trance, most memories of our earthly life from the moment

of conception onwards. Every pain, every emotional upset, every wavering of a

parent about the pregnancy is recorded in the mental field (not the brain) and

has an effect on the developing person from hereon.

Thoughts or attempts of abortion, the possible trauma of an amniocentesis,

illnesses of the mother during pregnancy, physiological problems such as vitamin

malnutrition are all having an impact on the developing fetus – so do all the

good things: the love, the intimacy between parents, the music that is played to

the baby through the abdominal wall of mother etc. The baby is bathed in the

energy field and mental field of its parents. The child starts out

with the life experiences of the parents already under his or her belt. While

pregnant both parents often unconsciously re-live their own pregnancy and MFT

quickly reveals, what happened while their parents were pregnant with them.

I was mildly depressed during Johanna's first trimester and gained more weight

than she did. I was constantly hungry, especially for potatoes which I usually

avoid. Questioning my mother she revealed, that she was very depressed during

her first trimester: the war had just ended and she had lost both her parents,

her home, all her friends, most family members and all possessions. She had

worked as a Red Cross nurse in the last stages of WWII and had seen horrendous

things. I was absorbing the posttraumatic stress of hers while she was pregnant

with me.

In Johanna's pregnancy with my own child those feelings were coming to

the surface asking to be dealt with. I did. My mother was also starving while

pregnant with me. All she had for several months were potatoes that my father

stole regularly form the American supply trains entering Berlin. I was reliving

those feelings and physiological states when Johanna was in the same stages of

pregnancy. I find this true during most pregnancies that I

supervise as a physician. The partners go through a variety of feelings and

states which are more often related to their own respective intra-uterine time

than to current time and space. We are designed that way.

Birth: there are many different ways and methods to give birth. There is the

Leboyer method of gentle birth, Lamaaze, the Brasilian method of squatting,

water births and the Caucasian method of lying on the back. In the US births

accompanied by midwifes have a greater safety record then hospital births. In

the hospital there is certainly an excess of epidural injections, episiotomies,

C-sections and other interventions, which are often not needed.

There is a connection between epidural injections at birth and drug addiction of

the child later in life. There is a connection between C-sections and arthritis

later in life. Every intervention has a down side and should be used prudently.

In terms of child mortality; the US has one of the worst statistics in the

Western world. We have decided to use a mid wife and doula. A doula coaches the

woman before the birth process about all the little details thatwill come up

during birth and afterward. What bed to buy? What car seat? How to breast feed

and what to expect? What position to give birth in? How to relieve labor pain by

body positioning, with essential oils or homeopathy? I love the home birthing

classes we are taking and our teacher and doula will be present during our

birth. We want our birth to be fun, and a ritual for all of us to grow more

mature and together. There will be no needles, bright lights, loud sounds. We

hope to welcome our child the way nature intended the welcome delivery to be.

The newborn period: Once the baby is born, it needs to be handled gently.

No slapping, no panicky washing of the skin. Everything about birth is

natural and not a medical emergency. There are of course exceptions which should

be prepared for and kept in the back of ones mind. That is the job of the

midwife or obstetrician. Once the placenta is birthed the baby should rest on

mother's stomach to bond. The role of the father should not be about being a

second mother. His role is to hold, nurture and protect the space.

Diapers should be chosen carefully. Plastic throw away diapers have been shown

to warm the testicles of a male baby contributing to male infertility later in

life.

The sleeping location of the baby is important. Most families co-sleep with

their newborns for the fist 6 to 12 months. The benefit of co-sleeping is not

just about the ease of nightly feeding, but also introduces the child's

independence to our world slowly. The new born still has a feeling of being part

of the mother and does not yet have a strong sense of `self'.

Sudden infant death syndrome has been linked in a number of studies to a strange

phenomenon: polyurethane and other plastic uses of foam mattress get soaked with

sweat, urine and other bodily excretions. There is an interaction of microbes,

foam and bodily fluids which creates toxic gases: thioethers, mercaptans,

hydrogensulfide and others have been detected.

These gases are the same that were used in combat during WWI to paralyze the

opponents breathing mechanism. They do the same in a newborn, especially when

combined with the stress of recent immunizations. These gases are heavier then

air. Baby cribs – often with crib bumpers - that have a wooden frame which

extends higher then the mattress often create a bowl, in which the gases sit and

cannot flow over to the side. The alternatives are mattresses made from cotton

or natural rubbers, which do not create these problems.

Vaccines: the vaccine issue has many layers. It is clear from an

epidemiological point of view, that the more people are vaccinated, the less the

spread of the related illnesses. It is also clear from my clinical experience,

that many children have developed autism, hyperactivity, and asthma or suffered

severe brain damage within a few days of vaccination.

Vaccines are good for the community, but potentially bad for the individual.

The immune system of a child takes 24 months to mature and is very

vulnerable during this time. Many vaccines still contain ethyl mercury, one of

the two most toxic mercurial compounds. By the time the child is 6 years old,

the accumulated amount of mercury from vaccines is clinically significant. No

one escapes this damage.

Today mercury free vaccine alternatives exist, but are not yet routinely used –

only by request. The pharmaceutical industry is using up its old supplies

first….The high risk to contract hepatitis B is either IV drug users or

prostitution. Hepatitis B vaccination is forced on newborn babies here in the

US, but is outlawed in France. How many newborns do you know that use IV drugs

with contaminated needles or engage in prostitution? I make my recommendations

to my patients along the above understandings. What I will do with my own child

is very clear to me but will stay private. I recommend reading the work of Dr.

Tenpenny or reading up on the vaccine issue at: www.mercola.com

Dental issues: great progress has been made in the prevention of dental caries

and furthering proper development of the facial structures and dental arches. As

already mentioned above, if a mother chews xylitol chewing gum 3 -5 times per

day during pregnancy and for the first year of life, the child has no tooth

decay for 5 years and there is still a statistically significant effect at age

10 – even if the child never chews the gum. Xylitol is a sugar alcohol that

inhibits the growth of streptococcus mutants, the caries bug.

Research in Japan showed, if pregnant mothers and their children eat 1-2

capsules chlorella growth factor (a heat extract of chlorella), the 20 children

in the experimental group did not develop any tooth decay for 5 years (opposed

to the control group who showed a significant amount of tooth decay). The most

startling finding in the study was; CGF children developed beautifully developed

facial structures and dental arches, predicting a lack of facial pain, jaw

problems, neck problems, headaches, hormonal problems and more, later in life.

In a Japanese study on dogs - perfect dental arches

also predicted better general health, a higher life expectancy, higher

intelligence, more pleasant behavioral characteristics and a non-scoliotic,

perfect spine.

Television: A few days ago a study for the first time showed a direct

connection between early television viewing and hyperactive behavior. Do not use

your television-set as a baby sitter. Have the child paint, sing, play be

interactive with its new and ever changing three-dimensional world.

Maybe you will find some valuable tips in this paper. It is knowledge we all

should have learnt at school. I am sure you know many more tips and tricks and I

would love to hear from you. I intend to collect papers, articles, ideas and

experiences and compile them in a book.

I would like to end this paper with a sentence from the book `Welcoming Baby' by

S. Colleen Graham. " What tomorrow's children are to be, will be determined by

what today's parents-to-be choose to be. "

May we all acknowledge and honor our true responsibility as parents and enjoy

the light and joy our children bring to us.

Dietrich Klinghardt, MD, PhD "

Also, with GREAT info ALL of us need, this one was posted by Natasha on the LIA

group, June 4, 2009 message #1233)....since it was on another group I've copied

it below because it was so good:

" Acupunct Electrother Res. 1995 Aug-Dec;20(3-4):195-229.

Role of mercury (Hg) in resistant infections & effective treatment of

Chlamydia trachomatis and Herpes family viral infections (and potential

treatment for cancer) by removing localized Hg deposits with Chinese parsley and

delivering effective antibiotics using various drug uptake enhancement methods.

Omura Y, Beckman SL. Heart Disease Research Foundation, New York, USA.

The authors found that antibiotics used to treat various infections often

were ineffective in the presence of abnormal localized deposits of heavy metals

like Hg and Pb, which were often observed to co-exist with Chlamydia

trachomatis, Herpes Simplex Types I & II, Cytomegalovirus(CMV), and other

micro-organisms. Our earlier research revealed that despite rigorous treatment

with antibiotics together with various drug uptake enhancement techniques,

subjects who had been treated for Chlamydia trachomatis infections, seemingly

successfully with disappearance of their symptoms, were often experiencing

recurrences within several months after completion of their treatment despite

taking precautions against reinfection. Careful examination of the entire body

of these symptom-free patients with the Bi-Digital O-Ring Test revealed that the

Chlamydia trachomatis had retreated to 3 approximately 5 hiding places with

localized increase in uric acid levels: 1) sublingual caruncle, 2) a small round

area in the right and/or left axillae, 3) the genitals (Corona Glandis area of

the Glans Penis at the Fossa Navicularis of the urethra in the male, and near

the orifice of the urethra in the female), 4) Insulin-like Growth Factor

positive horizontal lines, particularly above and below the knees, 5) the

maxillary, ethmoid and frontal sinuses and the horizontal lines at the base of

the nostrils (particularly small areas where Insulin-like Growth Factors exist).

We found that all these areas contain Insulin-like Growth Factors I & II which

are reduced in the presence of infection. Even when drug uptake of antibiotics

was selectively increased in these 3 approximately 5 areas by various drug

uptake enhancement methods developed by the 1st author, still the infection

persisted. In the spring of 1995, use of Chinese parsley for successful

elimination of Hg deposits existing in various organs of the first author as the

result of the decay of radioactive Thallium 201 injected for cardiac SPECT, was

accidentally discovered after eating Vietnamese soup, which happened to contain

Chinese parsley, also called cilantro. We also found Chinese parsley accelerates

the excretion of Hg, Pb, and A1 from the body though the urine. Our subjects

were given a course of antibiotics (Doxycycline for Chlamydia trachomatis

infection) or anti-viral agents (EPA with DHA for Herpes Family Viruses)

together with Chinese parsley. Since these vegetable/herbs were eaten, the

amount of effective substance absorbed varied and some people did not like the

taste of these relatively large amounts of either cooked or raw parsley or its

juice, but together with effective antibiotics delivered by drug uptake

enhancement methods to the infected areas, the substances worked

synergistically, rapidly reducing the generalized symptoms and infection. The

micro-organisms retreated to the 3 approximately 5 areas listed above where,

with continued treatment, they were significantly reduced, but not completely

eliminated. Because of these problems, a pharmaceutical company was asked to

produce a Chinese parsley table containing a controlled amount in a highly

absorbable form. When 11 subjects were treated with Doxycycline for Chlamydia

trachomatis infection, or anti-viral agents (EPA with DHA) for Herpes Family

Viruses, drug uptake enhancement methods to selectively increase delivery of the

drugs to the affected areas, and Chinese parsley tablets to remove the heavy

metal deposits, the last traces of the infections and clinical symptoms

disappeared completely. Therefore we hypothesized that the infectious

micro-organisms mentioned above, somehow utilize the Hg or Pb to protect

themselves from what would otherwise be effective antibiotics, and/or that heavy

metal deposits in some way make antibiotics ineffective. Since the

micro-organisms retreat to areas in which Insulin-like Growth Factors I & II

normally exist, they may be utilizing them for their own growth and

multiplication. These phenomena ma...(cut off) PMID: 8686573

------ End of Forwarded Message "

As always, I've posted a book (some day I want to write one I've learned so much

over the years )....I decided to just take it to here. I would be happy to

copy & put up in this thread some of the prior 2009 messages w/the additional

links and info on how much Chlorella if it would be further helpful to you.

Congratulation on your new blessing to love!!!

Rita

>

>

>

>

> Hi Everyone,

>

> My daughter is due to have her first baby in December.

> She plans to breastfeed (yay!)

> What are some things she can do now and after the baby's birth

> to ensure good milk production/latching?

> (I was a freaking cow - milk came very easy for me. It's not something I had

to work for.)

> She worries (which doesn't help).  I think if she is proactive, it will help

physically and mentally.

> I'd love to hear what everyone has to share.

>

> Thanks!

> Tammy

>

[Guest guest]

Tammy,

Some REALLY GOOD articles on this subject that I've saved on my favorite posts

spreadsheet...enjoy! I had a TOTALLY different experience w/my daughter's

pregnancy & delivery than w/my sons. Yes, some of it was I was more confident as

a 2nd time mom....but even more I had start biomed on my son so I'd gained many

natural things to do to improve all of our overall health....though I wish I'd

had some of the info that I'm sending you below. Extra Probiotics prior to

delivery are a MUST (my daughter had the most beautiful skin...NO thrush either

in her or transferred to problems in breastfeeding). Extra good fats are a

MUST...purified CLO during pregnancy & breatfeeding...good fats feed the brain,

eyes, skin of the newborn. DrK below also recommends Chlorella & Xylitol

gum....COOL info, check it out below!

From this group, there is a thread with GREAT info starting w/message #76354

which I posted in answer to a breastfeeding thread on Oct 19, 2009, from there

see #76355 w/a link Jane did in a reply post, & a follow up in message #76425

which includes a MUST read link....which is so good I'm coping it below for you

as there is truths ALL of us can learn from throughout Dr Klinghardt's advice:

http://www.klinghardtacademy.com/Articles/Advice-for-Parents-to-be-Pregnant-Wome\

n-etc.html

" Advice for parents-to-be, pregnant women and their partners - and

those who take care of them

Dietrich Klinghardt, MD, PhD Medina, WA 4/4/04

In a few weeks time I will be a father for the first time. I am well over fifty

and feel quite ready for the upcoming changes in my life - and the

responsibilities that come along with parenthood. Upon reflection, I realize

that there are advantages to being a `late' father. I have learnt many lessons

during my 30 years of medical practice. Lessons to do with conceiving a child,

guiding a mother safely through pregnancy, the birth process itself and the many

obstacles and problems that face a newborn.

In this article I want to summarize my most important learnings, so that they

may be helpful to people who intend to have a child; those who are already

pregnant or those of you with young children.

Conception: in the last 50 years the sperm count and quality has

significantly dropped. Inability to conceive for both maternal and paternal

reasons is rapidly rising. I have helped many couples conceive by using my own

technique of biofeedback testing as an additional diagnostic tool – autonomic

response testing.

In Autonomic Response Testing the body is stressed or challenged with different

stressors and the response of the autonomic nervous system is observed. In

general I use muscle tone testing as biofeedback mechanism. The results are then

interpreted accordingly and generally lead non-invasively to an exact diagnosis.

Here is a brief list of common reasons of infertility that we found with

Autonomic Response Testing (and treatment of which lead to successful

conception):

* Abdominal scar tissue (treated with neural therapy). Appendectomy and hernia

scars are worst – they often block the motility of the female tube, decrease

blood flow in the uterus and decrease sperm production and quality in the male.

* Chlamydia Trachomatis: commonly under-diagnosed, and one of the most

common reasons for not conceiving in the presence of normal hormonal

tests. Often the tubes are open, but their motility is impaired. Common lab

diagnosis is often false negative. After my diagnosis with Autonomic Response

Testing, both partners are commonly put on Doxycycline, starting the week before

planned conception and for 2 weeks beyond. It is hard to eradicate Chlamydia as

it can only be temporarily suppressed with antibiotic treatment. Enderlein

therapy succeeds but takes longer (Pleo Fort, Pleo Nig and Utilin are the most

important).s

* Sperm allergy: The male partner collects his sperm in a jar and we work to

establish whether or not there is an allergy using Autonomic Response Testing.

Desensitization is successfully performed with Mental Field Therapy. Others have

reported success with anti-allergic cough syrup or NAET. Longterm treatment with

Pleo Sancom leads to a decrease in allergic oversensitivity, which also relates

to mold and other allergies

* Low sperm count: we could show that special preparations of chlorella

pyreneidosa (I use only " Ka-Tox Chlorella " which is grown, cracked and prepared

in a different way then other products) and have dramatically and successfully

increased the sperm count in affected men.

* Toxicity: this is in my experience definitely the most common cause of

infertility in both sexes. A good detoxification program using NDF,

Chlorella, Phospholipids with EDTA, sauna therapy, lymphatic drainage and Tim

Ray's biological terrain management are a must. Our omprehensive protocol on

toxicity and detoxification will be covered at our Seattle seminar on July 30th

- August 1st 2004. Removal of amalgam fillings and root filled teeth may be

required to conceive, especially for the mother. It is much easier and safer to

detoxify a mother before she becomes pregnant.

Other factors involve food allergies, unresolved emotional trauma, poor dental

occlusion and geopathic or biophysical stress.

Intrauterine problems:

Toxicity: during pregnancy and breastfeeding large quantities of toxins, up to

one third of the mothers total body burden, are passed on to the fetus.

Dental practices should warn mothers not to have mercury containing silver

amalgam fillings placed during pregnancy. We know that a filling outgases 50% of

its high mercury content over the first seven years of its existence.

But, what about the mothers that have fillings?

Fillings should, ideally, come out before conception. If the mother is already

pregnant, the fillings can be safely removed, provided they are removed by the

few dentists that know how to do it correctly (trained by IAOMT). The mother's

body uses the unborn baby as a garbage can. Nature always favors the survival of

the elders over the young ones. It is absolutely important and correct to

attempt to detoxify a mother during pregnancy rather then accepting the risk of

not detoxifying her. I use chlorella, NDF, electric foot baths and other safe

treatment protocols to pull toxins from the mother's blood without interfering

with nutrient transport or uptake.

Nutrition: we know that the baby of a mother that has low folic acid levels

before pregnancy has a higher risk of being born with spina bifida or hare's

lip. Adding folic acid to the diet after becoming pregnant may be too late. I

have all my female patients on 1-2mg of folic acid, since it also prevents

cervical dysplasia to a high degree.

We know that it is no longer safe eat fish, especially tuna and other fish

higher up on the food chain where contaminants are concentrated more then a

million times. Some fish oil producers (i.e. Nordic Naturals and Carlson's) use

a proprietary process which removes mercury and other metals.

However, they do not necessarily remove PCBs and other chemicals. Good

fish oil is absolutely necessary for the child's brain development. Studies

indicate that; if enough fish oil is consumed in the last trimester, the child

is more intelligent and has less chance of developing neurological disorders.

The mother benefits too, by having less of a chance of developing eclampsia or

preclampsia, less post partum depression and less complications during

childbirth.

In addition, a number of papers have shown a great reduction in pregnancy

related complications simply by taking a daily multivitamin. Both Italian and

German studies suggest strongly, that L-Carnitine (2 cap 3 times/day) make a

huge difference in outcome. Complications during pregnancy as well as labor are

greatly reduced. The child is often larger, healthier and more intelligent later

in life. A Finnish study on 169 children from the University

of Turku demonstrated how tooth decay in young children can be prevented:

if the mother chews streptococcus mutans killing xylitol chewing gum 3

times per day during the pregnancy and for one year afterwards, the child has

virtually no tooth decay until age 5 (as compared to a group that had regular

fluoride or chlorhexedine treatments).

WHO estimates that the world IQ has declined 10-15 % in the last 15 years due to

malnutrition. The study did not exclude tests taken in the US population. Lack

of vitamin A, Lithium, Iodine and Fish-oil are most strongly linked to the

decline.

Toxic building syndrome: many US homes are toxic. Most common is

electro-smog from cell phone towers (Microwave), poor electric wiring in the

home or nearby power lines. Cordless phones have emerged as a major stressor in

recent years. I often send one of my associates with appropriate measuring tools

to the homes of my patients who are either chronically ill, have trouble

conceiving and where a pregnant couple lives. Most patients sleep in

electrically stressed environments. It is often the cause of childhood asthma,

eczema, hyperactivity and other behavioral problems and the cause

of more severe illnesses in grown-ups.

For example; I recently examined a mother with brain cancer and found out that

she was sleeping in an electromagnetically contaminated environment.

She moved her bed and within 6 months and the cancer disappeared with no

following relapse. No other treatment was used. Four years later I received the

message that her 6 year old son had died of an identical brain cancer.

What we later found out was that the mother had put her two year old in the same

sleeping location that she had just moved from. Four years later this child

died. She thought electromagnetic stress would not hurt her child.

This issue is virtually absent at both conventional and alternative medical

seminars in this country. Often we advise to turn off the fuses for the bedroom

with excellent improvement s in health related parameters. My patients are not

allowed to have cordless phones in the home. They broadcast a highly disturbing

biological signal to anything `alive' within a large radius for 24 hours. This

article does not allow space to discuss geopathic stress, which is an

independent potentially catastrophic phenomenon.

Other sources of stress in a home include outgasing from carpets, paintfumes and

from biotoxins found in mold. I send mold cultures to a lab for evaluation and

desensitize the patient using the Pleo fungal products which work beautifully.

Carpets have to leave the house unless they are non-toxic (which is rare).

Lately, several studies have shown that flame retardants (PBDs and PBDEs) were

found in most mothers' breast milk. They retard also the development of a fetus

or a newborn child and are involved in the causation of many neurological

illnesses and cancer. PBDEs are found in all

upholstered furniture, some clothing and toys – required by law. The highest

levels are found within 6 months of new purchase. The flame retarding effect is

gone after 6 months, but the PBDEs stay in the tissues of a mother and child

forever. This is an issue relevant to every reader of this paper.

Cosmetics: Over the last 20 years, many publications have shown that

almost no cosmetic product is safe. The FDA poorly regulates this industry and

special interest has stopped the propagation of the critical literature. A

medical colleague of mine from Germany published a book on the cancer causing

effect of under-arm deodorants. He lost his medical license and his house was

burnt down. This was 1997, not 1937. In December a British biologist from

Redding, UK confirmed his findings: there is a huge link between the use of

parabens in deodorant sprays and the development of

breast cancer. I must stress that this is a much stronger link then the link

between HRT with estrogen and breast cancer.

I advise all my potential and de-facto mothers to avoid all cosmetics and

recommend non-toxic cosmetics that are supplied by a small company that I work

with. It is limited though. Remember, any toxin in a mother is found in her baby

at an even higher concentration. Incidentally, there are currently no commercial

laboratories where you can send in a mother's breast milk to assess the level of

toxic and environmental toxins. Medical toxicology has to be one of the most

important diagnostic tools for us in order to save our future.

Sauna therapy is a great method to reduce the body burden of both chemicals and

cosmetic residues, but is not recommended during pregnancy.

Allergies: if a mother is sensitive or allergic to certain foods, but continues

to eat them during pregnancy, the child is four times more likely to develop

allergies in his/her life. Asthma, eczema, hay fever, hyperactivity (some

types), gluten and gliadin sensitivities with or without colitis are all part of

this symptom complex. For the mother to avoid those foods, fragrances and skin

contacts they need to be diagnosed first. Lately, blood tests are shown to be

quite unreliable (see Townsend letter/Allan Gaby). Clinically we have

excellent results with Autonomic Response Testing testing and, based on the

results, we can diagnose allergenic substances and advise the mother as to what

to avoid. These babies turn out to be quite different: they are born bearing a

smile.

Neurosensory stimulation: Tomatis and many other researchers have

demonstrated that children can be made more intelligent later in life by

stimulating them appropriately in utero. Mozart Music, transabdominal light

stimulation (Dinshaw method), transabdominal touch, dancing and maternal yoga

have all been shown to contribute to a neurologically healthy baby. Our unborn

baby loves it when I play guitar and sing. It punches Johanna's belly from the

inside in the correct rhythm. It also responds to my touch: when I tap 3 times

on the belly, baby taps back… 3 times.

Psychological Interventions: I use mental field therapy, a method

composed of many different disciplines of thought in energy psychology – taught

to physicians all over the world for over fifteen years. It involves focusing

the mind on related issues, such as, for example, painful images of childbirth

relayed by the client's mother, traumatic sexual experiences.

Working with a mind focusing on these issues, we stabilize the client's energy

field with a meditative technique and simultaneously tap those acupuncture

points which are related to the stressful memory. I found that every cramp,

every bout of nausea, excessive fatigue and a variety of other pregnancy related

symptoms disappear within minutes using this approach.

It may involve uncovering painful experiences from the past. Sometimes the

dysfunction is just in the energy field without any particular content attached

to it.

I have learned a lot from the perinatal psychologist Chamberlain's -

Babies Remember Birth. Chamberlain compiled the evidence, that the baby is a

conscious sentient being from the moment of conception. As adults we are able to

retrieve, in hypnotic trance, most memories of our earthly life from the moment

of conception onwards. Every pain, every emotional upset, every wavering of a

parent about the pregnancy is recorded in the mental field (not the brain) and

has an effect on the developing person from hereon.

Thoughts or attempts of abortion, the possible trauma of an amniocentesis,

illnesses of the mother during pregnancy, physiological problems such as vitamin

malnutrition are all having an impact on the developing fetus – so do all the

good things: the love, the intimacy between parents, the music that is played to

the baby through the abdominal wall of mother etc. The baby is bathed in the

energy field and mental field of its parents. The child starts out

with the life experiences of the parents already under his or her belt. While

pregnant both parents often unconsciously re-live their own pregnancy and MFT

quickly reveals, what happened while their parents were pregnant with them.

I was mildly depressed during Johanna's first trimester and gained more weight

than she did. I was constantly hungry, especially for potatoes which I usually

avoid. Questioning my mother she revealed, that she was very depressed during

her first trimester: the war had just ended and she had lost both her parents,

her home, all her friends, most family members and all possessions. She had

worked as a Red Cross nurse in the last stages of WWII and had seen horrendous

things. I was absorbing the posttraumatic stress of hers while she was pregnant

with me.

In Johanna's pregnancy with my own child those feelings were coming to

the surface asking to be dealt with. I did. My mother was also starving while

pregnant with me. All she had for several months were potatoes that my father

stole regularly form the American supply trains entering Berlin. I was reliving

those feelings and physiological states when Johanna was in the same stages of

pregnancy. I find this true during most pregnancies that I

supervise as a physician. The partners go through a variety of feelings and

states which are more often related to their own respective intra-uterine time

than to current time and space. We are designed that way.

Birth: there are many different ways and methods to give birth. There is the

Leboyer method of gentle birth, Lamaaze, the Brasilian method of squatting,

water births and the Caucasian method of lying on the back. In the US births

accompanied by midwifes have a greater safety record then hospital births. In

the hospital there is certainly an excess of epidural injections, episiotomies,

C-sections and other interventions, which are often not needed.

There is a connection between epidural injections at birth and drug addiction of

the child later in life. There is a connection between C-sections and arthritis

later in life. Every intervention has a down side and should be used prudently.

In terms of child mortality; the US has one of the worst statistics in the

Western world. We have decided to use a mid wife and doula. A doula coaches the

woman before the birth process about all the little details thatwill come up

during birth and afterward. What bed to buy? What car seat? How to breast feed

and what to expect? What position to give birth in? How to relieve labor pain by

body positioning, with essential oils or homeopathy? I love the home birthing

classes we are taking and our teacher and doula will be present during our

birth. We want our birth to be fun, and a ritual for all of us to grow more

mature and together. There will be no needles, bright lights, loud sounds. We

hope to welcome our child the way nature intended the welcome delivery to be.

The newborn period: Once the baby is born, it needs to be handled gently.

No slapping, no panicky washing of the skin. Everything about birth is

natural and not a medical emergency. There are of course exceptions which should

be prepared for and kept in the back of ones mind. That is the job of the

midwife or obstetrician. Once the placenta is birthed the baby should rest on

mother's stomach to bond. The role of the father should not be about being a

second mother. His role is to hold, nurture and protect the space.

Diapers should be chosen carefully. Plastic throw away diapers have been shown

to warm the testicles of a male baby contributing to male infertility later in

life.

The sleeping location of the baby is important. Most families co-sleep with

their newborns for the fist 6 to 12 months. The benefit of co-sleeping is not

just about the ease of nightly feeding, but also introduces the child's

independence to our world slowly. The new born still has a feeling of being part

of the mother and does not yet have a strong sense of `self'.

Sudden infant death syndrome has been linked in a number of studies to a strange

phenomenon: polyurethane and other plastic uses of foam mattress get soaked with

sweat, urine and other bodily excretions. There is an interaction of microbes,

foam and bodily fluids which creates toxic gases: thioethers, mercaptans,

hydrogensulfide and others have been detected.

These gases are the same that were used in combat during WWI to paralyze the

opponents breathing mechanism. They do the same in a newborn, especially when

combined with the stress of recent immunizations. These gases are heavier then

air. Baby cribs – often with crib bumpers - that have a wooden frame which

extends higher then the mattress often create a bowl, in which the gases sit and

cannot flow over to the side. The alternatives are mattresses made from cotton

or natural rubbers, which do not create these problems.

Vaccines: the vaccine issue has many layers. It is clear from an

epidemiological point of view, that the more people are vaccinated, the less the

spread of the related illnesses. It is also clear from my clinical experience,

that many children have developed autism, hyperactivity, and asthma or suffered

severe brain damage within a few days of vaccination.

Vaccines are good for the community, but potentially bad for the individual.

The immune system of a child takes 24 months to mature and is very

vulnerable during this time. Many vaccines still contain ethyl mercury, one of

the two most toxic mercurial compounds. By the time the child is 6 years old,

the accumulated amount of mercury from vaccines is clinically significant. No

one escapes this damage.

Today mercury free vaccine alternatives exist, but are not yet routinely used –

only by request. The pharmaceutical industry is using up its old supplies

first….The high risk to contract hepatitis B is either IV drug users or

prostitution. Hepatitis B vaccination is forced on newborn babies here in the

US, but is outlawed in France. How many newborns do you know that use IV drugs

with contaminated needles or engage in prostitution? I make my recommendations

to my patients along the above understandings. What I will do with my own child

is very clear to me but will stay private. I recommend reading the work of Dr.

Tenpenny or reading up on the vaccine issue at: www.mercola.com

Dental issues: great progress has been made in the prevention of dental caries

and furthering proper development of the facial structures and dental arches. As

already mentioned above, if a mother chews xylitol chewing gum 3 -5 times per

day during pregnancy and for the first year of life, the child has no tooth

decay for 5 years and there is still a statistically significant effect at age

10 – even if the child never chews the gum. Xylitol is a sugar alcohol that

inhibits the growth of streptococcus mutants, the caries bug.

Research in Japan showed, if pregnant mothers and their children eat 1-2

capsules chlorella growth factor (a heat extract of chlorella), the 20 children

in the experimental group did not develop any tooth decay for 5 years (opposed

to the control group who showed a significant amount of tooth decay). The most

startling finding in the study was; CGF children developed beautifully developed

facial structures and dental arches, predicting a lack of facial pain, jaw

problems, neck problems, headaches, hormonal problems and more, later in life.

In a Japanese study on dogs - perfect dental arches

also predicted better general health, a higher life expectancy, higher

intelligence, more pleasant behavioral characteristics and a non-scoliotic,

perfect spine.

Television: A few days ago a study for the first time showed a direct

connection between early television viewing and hyperactive behavior. Do not use

your television-set as a baby sitter. Have the child paint, sing, play be

interactive with its new and ever changing three-dimensional world.

Maybe you will find some valuable tips in this paper. It is knowledge we all

should have learnt at school. I am sure you know many more tips and tricks and I

would love to hear from you. I intend to collect papers, articles, ideas and

experiences and compile them in a book.

I would like to end this paper with a sentence from the book `Welcoming Baby' by

S. Colleen Graham. " What tomorrow's children are to be, will be determined by

what today's parents-to-be choose to be. "

May we all acknowledge and honor our true responsibility as parents and enjoy

the light and joy our children bring to us.

Dietrich Klinghardt, MD, PhD "

Also, with GREAT info ALL of us need, this one was posted by Natasha on the LIA

group, June 4, 2009 message #1233)....since it was on another group I've copied

it below because it was so good:

" Acupunct Electrother Res. 1995 Aug-Dec;20(3-4):195-229.

Role of mercury (Hg) in resistant infections & effective treatment of

Chlamydia trachomatis and Herpes family viral infections (and potential

treatment for cancer) by removing localized Hg deposits with Chinese parsley and

delivering effective antibiotics using various drug uptake enhancement methods.

Omura Y, Beckman SL. Heart Disease Research Foundation, New York, USA.

The authors found that antibiotics used to treat various infections often

were ineffective in the presence of abnormal localized deposits of heavy metals

like Hg and Pb, which were often observed to co-exist with Chlamydia

trachomatis, Herpes Simplex Types I & II, Cytomegalovirus(CMV), and other

micro-organisms. Our earlier research revealed that despite rigorous treatment

with antibiotics together with various drug uptake enhancement techniques,

subjects who had been treated for Chlamydia trachomatis infections, seemingly

successfully with disappearance of their symptoms, were often experiencing

recurrences within several months after completion of their treatment despite

taking precautions against reinfection. Careful examination of the entire body

of these symptom-free patients with the Bi-Digital O-Ring Test revealed that the

Chlamydia trachomatis had retreated to 3 approximately 5 hiding places with

localized increase in uric acid levels: 1) sublingual caruncle, 2) a small round

area in the right and/or left axillae, 3) the genitals (Corona Glandis area of

the Glans Penis at the Fossa Navicularis of the urethra in the male, and near

the orifice of the urethra in the female), 4) Insulin-like Growth Factor

positive horizontal lines, particularly above and below the knees, 5) the

maxillary, ethmoid and frontal sinuses and the horizontal lines at the base of

the nostrils (particularly small areas where Insulin-like Growth Factors exist).

We found that all these areas contain Insulin-like Growth Factors I & II which

are reduced in the presence of infection. Even when drug uptake of antibiotics

was selectively increased in these 3 approximately 5 areas by various drug

uptake enhancement methods developed by the 1st author, still the infection

persisted. In the spring of 1995, use of Chinese parsley for successful

elimination of Hg deposits existing in various organs of the first author as the

result of the decay of radioactive Thallium 201 injected for cardiac SPECT, was

accidentally discovered after eating Vietnamese soup, which happened to contain

Chinese parsley, also called cilantro. We also found Chinese parsley accelerates

the excretion of Hg, Pb, and A1 from the body though the urine. Our subjects

were given a course of antibiotics (Doxycycline for Chlamydia trachomatis

infection) or anti-viral agents (EPA with DHA for Herpes Family Viruses)

together with Chinese parsley. Since these vegetable/herbs were eaten, the

amount of effective substance absorbed varied and some people did not like the

taste of these relatively large amounts of either cooked or raw parsley or its

juice, but together with effective antibiotics delivered by drug uptake

enhancement methods to the infected areas, the substances worked

synergistically, rapidly reducing the generalized symptoms and infection. The

micro-organisms retreated to the 3 approximately 5 areas listed above where,

with continued treatment, they were significantly reduced, but not completely

eliminated. Because of these problems, a pharmaceutical company was asked to

produce a Chinese parsley table containing a controlled amount in a highly

absorbable form. When 11 subjects were treated with Doxycycline for Chlamydia

trachomatis infection, or anti-viral agents (EPA with DHA) for Herpes Family

Viruses, drug uptake enhancement methods to selectively increase delivery of the

drugs to the affected areas, and Chinese parsley tablets to remove the heavy

metal deposits, the last traces of the infections and clinical symptoms

disappeared completely. Therefore we hypothesized that the infectious

micro-organisms mentioned above, somehow utilize the Hg or Pb to protect

themselves from what would otherwise be effective antibiotics, and/or that heavy

metal deposits in some way make antibiotics ineffective. Since the

micro-organisms retreat to areas in which Insulin-like Growth Factors I & II

normally exist, they may be utilizing them for their own growth and

multiplication. These phenomena ma...(cut off) PMID: 8686573

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As always, I've posted a book (some day I want to write one I've learned so much

over the years )....I decided to just take it to here. I would be happy to

copy & put up in this thread some of the prior 2009 messages w/the additional

links and info on how much Chlorella if it would be further helpful to you.

Congratulation on your new blessing to love!!!

Rita

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> Hi Everyone,

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> My daughter is due to have her first baby in December.

> She plans to breastfeed (yay!)

> What are some things she can do now and after the baby's birth

> to ensure good milk production/latching?

> (I was a freaking cow - milk came very easy for me. It's not something I had

to work for.)

> She worries (which doesn't help).  I think if she is proactive, it will help

physically and mentally.

> I'd love to hear what everyone has to share.

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> Thanks!

> Tammy

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