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Breastfeeding after reduction surgery - the second time around

February 9, 2011

I wrote pre­vi­ously about breast­feed­ing my first child after hav­ing had breast reduc­tion surgery as a teenager.  We suc­cess­fully breast­fed for 27 months, until I stopped pro­duc­ing milk due to hyper­eme­sis dur­ing my sec­ond preg­nancy.  Because I had to pump and sup­ple­ment dur­ing the first six months of Oliver’s life, until he started eat­ing solids […]

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Our Weaning Story

March 16, 2010

I thought for my 26-week preg­nancy update, I’d tell the story of how, because of hyper­eme­sis gravi­darum, Oliver and I ended our breast­feed­ing rela­tion­ship. While much of the first six months of breast­feed­ing Oliver was spent try­ing to make it week to week, I always had the WHO guide­line of breast­feed­ing for at least two […]

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Breastfeeding after reduction - 2 years and still going strong

August 20, 2009

When I was 15 years old, breast­feed­ing was the fur­thest thing from my mind, I just wanted smaller breasts.  I went from a 44E to a 38B (yes, clearly I was in the wrong band size pre-surgery.  I didn’t know about spe­cial order­ing bras, so I was just in the biggest I could get at […]

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Breastfeeding After Reduction Surgery - 19 months and counting

February 27, 2009

I wrote before about my breast reduc­tion and the first year of breast­feed­ing my son, now I thought I’d give you an update on how it’s going.  I’d planned to do an 18 months and count­ing update, but life got in the way, and here we are at 19 months and still going strong in […]

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Breastfeeding After Reduction: One Year In

August 7, 2008

The sum­mer before 10th grade in high school, I got a breast reduc­tion. The thought of how the surgery would affect my abil­ity to breast­feed at some point in the prob­a­bly dis­tant future did not even cross my mind.  At 15, I was a 44E, after the surgery, I was down to a 38B (and […]

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