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Weight Loss Forum / Low Carb / March 2004Ping - Carol Ann
I was just thinking about you and wondering how you and your baby-in-waiting were doing! I sure hope you are doing okay and getting ready to nurse that baby fat into oblivion! -- Jenny - Low Carbing for 4 years. At goal for weight. Type 2 diabetes, hba1c 5.2. Cut the carbs to respond to my email address! Low carb facts and figures, my weight-loss photos, tips, recipes, strategies for dealing with diabetes and more at http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/ Looking for help controlling your blood sugar? Visit http://www.alt-support-diabetes.org/Newly%20Diagnosed.htm I'm wondering how you are getting on too, Carol Ann. Are you feeling anything like I am? A big lump that can barely roll over in bed! It's amazing how the baby "lump" sitting right in the middle of the abdomen can restrict me a lot more that when I was at my fattest. Very strange. Best of luck for a couple of weeks time, although it could be anytime now!! -- Tara www.dazzled.com/lowcarb - my homepage > I was just thinking about you and wondering how you and your baby-in-waiting > were doing! I sure hope you are doing okay and getting ready to nurse that [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > Looking for help controlling your blood sugar? > Visit http://www.alt-support-diabetes.org/Newly%20Diagnosed.htm I just looked at your web page. Your pictures are amazing. You look wonderful congratulations on your weight loss and your expected baby. :: I was just thinking about you and wondering how you and your baby-in-waiting :: were doing! I sure hope you are doing okay and getting ready to nurse that :: baby fat into oblivion! :: :: -- Jenny - Low Carbing for 4 years. At goal for weight. Type 2 diabetes, :: hba1c 5.2. :: Cut the carbs to respond to my email address! Hi, Jenny! Thank you soooo much for thinking of me!! I am doing well. At 37 weeks along, I can say honestly that I am still not ready to have the baby. My weight is up to 190lbs. I look forward to getting back to the losing weight after the baby arrives and I've had time to settle into motherhood (if that is possible). I am going to breastfeed (or at least give it a good try). Thank you, again for asking about me!!! ~Carol Ann www.lowcarblosers.com ~ Home of the Monthly Weightloss Challenge > :: I was just thinking about you and wondering how you and your > baby-in-waiting [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > ~Carol Ann > www.lowcarblosers.com ~ Home of the Monthly Weightloss Challenge This is good to hear - I've been wondering, but I lose track of time so easily, and had no clue you were so close! All the best to you, Carol Ann - I lose track of time, but not intent, and you've been in my prayers!  SignatureNancy Howells (don't forget to switch it, and replace the ;) to send mail). Hi Carol Ann, I'd been wondering how you were doing too. So many people to keep up with nowadays. :-) > At 37 weeks along, I can say honestly that I am still not ready to > have > the baby. I remember your due date is right around my birthday (March 18th) so that's as it should be. The baby will show up when it's ready (at this point in the game even if Small Stuff shows up early they'd probably be fine). > My weight is up to 190lbs. I look forward to getting back to the > losing weight after the baby arrives and I've had time to settle > into > motherhood (if that is possible). Well, the weight stuff stinks - I remember you saying the doc had wanted you to keep it to 25 pounds or so, but what's done is done. You can work on it later. > I am going to breastfeed (or at least give it a good try). That's a good choice, for both parties. :-) Take care of yourself and the baby, Carmen > I am going to breastfeed (or at least give it a good try). Breastfeeding is harder than people in general made me believe. I breastfed 4 children, including a 2 pound preemie. Breast milk is designed to meet the developmental needs of a baby. I learned that when my preemie was born, from the NICU staff. The breast milk "picks up" where the placenta "left off" and the baby grows accordingly. This applies to babies also born at term. It takes a bit of conscious effort *at first*, and there will be growth spurts where the baby will seemingly NEVER want to stop eating, but weather it out and you'll do fine. I've saved hundreds of dollars by not buying baby formula. (I did use some formula when the baby was over 6 months old and had started on solid foods, and daddy was the one in charge, but breastmilk was still the baby's main diet for a good long time). If things don't work out, and you do find breastfeeding to be more than you can handle, don't let any militants guilt you about it. I wish you the very best with your new baby! CM >> I am going to breastfeed (or at least give it a good try). > > Breastfeeding is harder than people in general made me believe. OOPS I meant *easier* than people in general made me believe. I apologize for lack of careful editing. > I breastfed 4 children, including a 2 pound preemie. Breast milk is > designed to meet the developmental needs of a baby. I learned that [quoted text clipped - 16 lines] > I wish you the very best with your new baby! > CM Crafting Mom, My experience is that it has a whole lot to do with the personality of your kid. My fussy baby who wouldn't ever sleep (and still doesn't sleep now that she's gown up) would not nurse. Period. Every La Leche lady weighed in, and we concluded that the choice was to see her get even skinnier than she was, which was much too skinny, or go to bottles. The bottle worked out great and she grew up with no eating or weight issues. My other kid, the relaxed, easy going one, lived to nurse. He gained a pound a week for fourteen straight weeks, and weaned himself at a year only after he discovered more interesting things to do. I didn't do anything different with the kids, but they were and are very different people. So while I am a big fan of breastfeeding I would say, give it two or three months trial and if it isn't working, don't beat yourself up. It's the folks who quit after two weeks I feel bad for, because the problems often can be solved, and the La Leche ladies are great at finding solutions. -- Jenny - Low Carbing for 4 years. At goal for weight. Type 2 diabetes, hba1c 5.2. Cut the carbs to respond to my email address! Low carb facts and figures, my weight-loss photos, tips, recipes, strategies for dealing with diabetes and more at http://www.geocities.com/jenny_the_bean/ Looking for help controlling your blood sugar? Visit http://www.alt-support-diabetes.org/Newly%20Diagnosed.htm > >> I am going to breastfeed (or at least give it a good try). > > [quoted text clipped - 23 lines] > > I wish you the very best with your new baby! > > CM Sorry to top post, but I definitely agree with you Jenny! CM > Crafting Mom, > [quoted text clipped - 17 lines] > folks who quit after two weeks I feel bad for, because the problems often > can be solved, and the La Leche ladies are great at finding solutions. >If things don't work out, and you do find breastfeeding to be more >than you can handle, don't let any militants guilt you about it. > >I wish you the very best with your new baby! >CM <nodding> And don't guilt YOURSELF out either if it doesn't work that way. I still tend to kick myself for not feeding them 'myself' even though I didn't have any options and while I know in my head I couldn't do things any other way, and in the grand scheme of things I wouldn't be still breastfeeding them even if HAD worked out differently. I turned out to be one of the rare ones (gosh - what a surprise! Nothing else about me works the way it's supposed to either) who just didn't lactate worth a damn. Not for my 7+ week premmie or for my on-her-due-date full-termer did I manage to produce enough milk. Eventually with the support of my Nursing Mothers Association (local arm of LLL) I had to admit that bottles were my only way although I offered the breast before each bottle until Athena was 10 months old and Ishtar was 6 months old. That way, they at least got SOME antibodies even if it wasn't as much as they would have gotten if I'd managed to b/f fully. They are both happy, mostly healthy kids who are active, smart and loving. Not being breastfed doesn't seem to have hurt them any. Best of luck, Carol Ann. Having made it this far, your gorgeous little girl has an excellent chance of being born hale and hearty and ready to thrive. I'll be keeping you in my thoughts as your life changes irrevocably in the next few weeks. Aramanth |
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