
Mark asks…
how to get my breasts back after all the breast feeding is done with?
my baby is 2 now and it’s been a while that i stopped breastfeeding. i’ve lost all my pregnancy weight and in the process seem to have lost my breasts too. they weren’t big to start, got bigger during pregnancy,and now it seems they are even smaller than before completely deflated. how can i get them fuller looking again? any natural remedies?
i don’t feel comfortable with my breast the way they are no they don’t even look like they belong to me they look like saggy lumps of skin or the breasts of a really aged woman and i’m only 27 . i don’t mind the streach marks on my belly i’m proud to be a mother, i just would also like to feel confidence in my body again. i don’t want supermodel breasts, just want them not to look like a saggy used pastry bag. 🙁
Michelle answers:
I breastfed 4 babies and now my breasts are bigger than ever! They never retain their pre-pregnant state ever again.

Lizzie asks…
How did you know you had PCOS?
I have heard that PCOS is very common.
I’m kind of getting scared I might have it, even though I don’t have those symptoms:
Hirsutism, thin hair, irregular periods…NONE.
My period started at the age of 11, but it’s normal for them to be irregular at the time( Or I never even payed attention to them). From 14 and on my periods have always been regular(Every 28 days).
I have gotten pregnant twice in less than a year. My first pregnancy took me 3 months to get pregnant but miscarried at 12 weeks(Baby died at 6w) it was a missed miscarriage in February 09. Then I started TTC again and got pregnant 4 months later with my baby boy. The whole pregnancy was risky..I had spotting and bleeding all the time having to rush to the ER. The doctor discovered I had placenta previa(Complete previa). At 19 weeks I had placental abruption and ended up giving birth at 23 weeks due to that. My baby boy died after birth, they couldnt save him 🙁 This happened in January this year. After those two events I went to another doctor and he told me that I must have had infection (Which I did test positive for infection UTI). I really keep thinking that it was my other doctor’s fault because I had a lot of back pain and he never prescribed me any medication..He wanted all natural remedies. The thing is I want to know why I havent conceived? I have been TTC since march with no luck. Could that mean PCOS or that has nothing to do with it? My new doctor did check my uterus and said it looked just fine and he did some testing and said that I’m very healthy, but the thought of PCOS runs in my mind.
Any feedback? Opinions?
Thanks 🙂
Michelle answers:
I am soo sorry for you losses. The only thing I can say and it’s something you probably dont want to hear is it will happen when your body is ready. Having a miscarraige let alone what you went through is so hard on your body. I truly beleive that your body will get pregnant when it’s ready. Have you talked to you doctor about Clomid? Even though I ovulate regualry and can get pregnant easily my gyno is having me try it this month. Like you I did the tests and am healthy. So, last resort is trying to help me ovulate better producing more mature and healthier eggs. I guess Clomid can help me so I am giving it shot. Just an idea 🙂 Good luck with everything and lots of HEALHTY baby dust to you!

Nancy asks…
Primitive pregnancy tests: what kind of folk remedy-diagnostics tests were used to determine pregnancy…….?
Before modern tests and before it becomes obvious…?
When a woman missed a period and wasn’t sure, how could they test to determine if it was due to pregnancy or stress?
What kind of detectable chemical changes take place?
What materials would be used to detect the changes…?
I’m guessing some kind of plant or other natural (relatively unprocessed) material.
What plant or animal would it come from?
What substitutes might be used if the most commonly used variety was not available?
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Michelle answers:
The ancient Egyptians watered bags of wheat and barley with the urine of a possibly pregnant woman. Germination indicated pregnancy, and based on what type of grain sprouted they predicted the gender of the fetus. Hippocrates suggested that a woman who had missed her period should drink a solution of honey in water at bedtime. Resulting abdominal distention and cramps would indicate the presence of a pregnancy. Avicenna and many physicians after him in the Middle Ages performed uroscopy, a nonscientific method to evaluate urine. Selmar Aschheim and Bernhard Zondek introduced testing based on the presence of hCG in 1928.[7]
In the Aschheim and Zondek test an infantile female mouse was injected subcutaneously with urine of the person to be tested, and some time later the mouse was killed and dissected. Presence of ovulation indicated that the urine contained hCG and meant that the person was pregnant. A similar test was developed using immature rabbits, the rabbit test. Here, too, it was necessary to kill the animal to check its ovaries. An improvement arrived with the frog test that was still used in the 1950s. A female frog was injected with serum or urine of the patient. If the frog produced eggs within the next 24 hours, the test was positive. In the frog test, the animal remained alive, and could be used again.

Robert asks…
Information or personal advice about uterine fibroids.?
There pretty common so I hope I get a little help. I have them and I am pretty sure that whats causes me to bleed for months at a time when I have my menstrual cycle instead of one week. I’d really like to know if there are any natural remedies anyone has tried that reduces the symptoms. I don’t have insurance right now but this bleeding is driving me crazy! As far as child bearing, has anyone had trouble because of the fibroids? It’s my dream to have kids so I’d like to know if I’m in for a long road to pregnancy or if it “may” not be a huge problem….If you have them and have gotten a medical procedure done, I’d like to know your expierience. Anything at all you’d like to say on the issue, please do. So far I’ve only talked to a doctor and looked up things on the internet. I have yet to talk to a person who has these fibroids. Thank you very much.
Michelle answers:
I had huge multiple fibroids even before i got pregnant. I’m 28.
I had my first surgery when i was 24, doctor removed 28 of them. But my bleeding didn’t improve. I was so weak and anemic. Doctor told me try to get pregnant after 6 months of that surgery, but within these 6 months fibroids grew again. Doctor said i need another surgery but this time they may not be able to save the uterus.
I was lucky and got pregnant just before the surgery.
The fibroids grew even bigger during my pregnancy. My tummy was huge
The pregnancy was so painful.
I couldn’t hold the baby after 30 weeks. I had c section and the baby was born.
The baby was tiny, the operation took long time to find the baby under so many fibroids.
At last doctor removed the whole uterus, there was no other option.
My baby is fine now, I’m relieved cause i don’t have that bleeding which kept me away from work for days.
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