1. That you get engorged in a matter of seconds.
2. You’d wake to a soaked bed, or night shirt.
3. Your baby would not want to eat when you wanted him/her to do it.
4. He/she will want to eat when it is inconvenient. (road trip)

5. You would grow twice your normal size.
6. You would shrink down to one size smaller than you once were when you stop breastfeeding.
7. It is easier to breastfeed then to wean.
8. That you should not diet while breastfeeding.
9. It is cheaper to breastfeed my baby then it is to bottle feed him/her.
10. Breastfeeding keeps him/her a little healthier.

11. Breastfeeding can cause tooth decay.
12. Everything you eat your child will eat.
13. Your child will suck the calcium out of you, make sure you take care of your teeth.
14. Breastfeeding delays “that time of month.”
15. Breastfeeding reduces the risk to breast cancer.
16. Your child may not like your breast milk and need something more. (yes this happened to me, I’ll write a post on it later this week)
17. No matter what, some will not be able to breastfeed.
18. If you work, expect someone to drink your pumped breast milk, if it is not in a bottle.
19. First time you experience blocked ducts you may think you have breast cancer.

20. You will leak at the worst of moments, especially when you have nothing to change into.
21. Everyone will tell you the joys of breastfeeding, but never the others.
22. Mastitis
23. Breast infection
24. Closed ducts
25. getting too much milk
26. Taking a shower does not mean you’ll stop spraying, in fact you probably will even more.
27. Your milk won’t dry up over night, weaning will be harder than that.
28. Breastfed babies can be colic too.
29. Men will be turned off by a breastfeeding mom.

30. Your doctor (male) will try telling you he has many new moms that leak in front of him. Eeek.
31. Many will argue that you breastfeed instead of the bottle.
32. Your nipples will crack, if you don’t use lotion of some sort.
33. There are breastfeeding websites to help you understand it all.
34. Men will be turned on by a breastfeeding mom, there are two types of men.
35. Everyone will give you advice on how to breastfeed your child, even after you’ve already had a few.
36. You will probably answer the door at least once with your breast hanging out. (my UPS man saw too much one time)
37. Your child will try breaking in his/her new teeth on your nipple. It will hurt.
38. Expect to show everyone your assets at least once in a grocery store.
39. It really is up to you if you want to breastfeed.

40. You will begin to release any time you hear a baby cry.
41. Even when you try to hide that you are breastfeeding someone will come up and begin talking with you.
42. Tossing a blanket over you while breastfeeding won’t stop onlookers from taking the blanket off and oowing at baby until they see his mouth is attached to your body.
43. Someone will be frightened that you breastfeed.
44. Someone will call you a pervert that you breastfeed, ignore them, they are the perve for ever going there.
45. One of the best ways to make your child quiet in a movie is to let them eat.
46. You will be warned not to feed your baby inside a museum.
47. Someone will ask you to cover up while you breastfeed.
48. You might get kicked out for breastfeeding your child.
49. You will definitely save a lot of money breast feeding, however shirts may cost a bit more.
50. Breastfeeding will bring the two of you closer.

 Can you add to this list?

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– Bev in Riding in Cars with Boys by Beverly DonOfrio

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5. The fifth most-popular post was the Recovering from a C-Section Omnibus. This post is almost a year old and contains links to all the previous posts about c-section recovery.

4. In the fourth spot is the C-Section Recovery post that explains how recovering from a c-section is more difficult than recovering from a vaginal birth.

3. The celebrity-studded What Adoption Usually Looks Like was in third place.

2. Dropping one place was the Lost Libido: Normal Sex After Childbirth post.

1. Coming out of nowhere to take the top spot for June is the tale of my own postpartum watershed rash.

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Congratulations! You’ve become a mother again. It’s both exactly the same and completely different than last time. If you’re anything like I was, you’re realized very quickly that you have to move twice as fast and have a lot less time to invest in recovering from pregnancy and childbirth than you did the first time.

Here are five tips to help you through the transition from one child to two:

5. Deal with all of the little discomforts that result from childbirth before they become bigger problems. It’s much easier to deal with a few piles than it is to deal with an infection down there.

4. Call a friend who is also a mother to talk about, and possibly cry about, the birth itself.

3. Don’t even step on the scales until the baby is six weeks old. After that, try to get a little exercise every day.

2. Make sure you get a three-hour break at least once a week.

1.  Accept help where and when you can get it.

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According to a study conducted at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the majority of doctors in the US state of North Carolina do not specifically look to identify signs of postpartum depression in new mothers.

228 physicians responded to the survey. All of them said they had seen women for postpartum check ups in the previous three months. 79 percent of them said they were unlikely to formally screen patients for depression even though 13 per cent of new mothers are thought to suffer from PPD.The usual symptoms of PPD are extreme fatigue, loss of pleasure in daily life, sleeplessness, sadness, tearfulness, anxiety, hopelessness, feelings of worthlessness and guilt, irritability, appetite change and poor concentration.
“We believe that it is very important that physicians work some type of depression screening into postpartum visits,” said Betsy Sleath, lead author of the study and a professor in UNC’s School of Pharmacy.

“And perhaps even more important, women shouldn’t be afraid or embarrassed to raise this issue with their doctor. We’re expected by society to be happy when we have a child so sometimes it’s hard to talk about the fact that women feel sad, or that it’s hard being a new mother,” said Professor Sleath.

“Depression during the perinatal period can have devastating consequences, not only for the women experiencing it but also for the women’s children and family,” said Dr. Bradley Gaynes, a psychiatrist who worked on the study.

Dr. Gaynes said that checking for PPD doesn’t require a formal screening tool. Instead, doctors should just ask the following questions:
* Has your interest in your usual activities changed?
* Do you feel depressed or hopeless?

While the study looked only at doctors in North Carolina, the results would probably be repeated in examining rooms elsewhere. I think the study is another sign that both women, their partners and community resource people need to be firm about demanding attention from doctors for PPD symptoms.

The study was published today in the North Carolina Medical Journal.

Have you ever been asked the two defining questions at a post natal appointment?

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