Pregancy - Blog Posts
I learnt recently that a lot of women have not heard of mastitis.
I figured it could be nice to just share a little bit about my experiences. I had it twice with my first born which I was told ment I would likely get it again.
Mastitis starts due a blocked milk duct or nipple which makes you boob turn into a red hot rock! Causes a lot of pain and you feel like flu hit you you faster than ever before, fever and all the aches and pains in your joints.
Unfortunately the only way to unblock is to keep on working very hard to get the milk out of your incredibly sore breast. Heat is amazing to help you soften the hard lumps and massaging as you either breastfeed or pump. I used hot water bottles, showers and had Antibiotics are normally given if you get mastitis. I did actually use cabbage leaves the coolness was lovely and it actually helped with pain in my nipple and helped with engogment.
A few reasons can cause mastitis from misshapen milk ducts, pumping and not getting all the milk out each time and also engorgment. (Breast tissue overfills with milk)
Hats of to the women that just keep on going with breastfeeding, I have stopped but...my boys are happy and healthy so if you ever need/want to stop breastfeeding don’t beat yourself up!
“Women who become pregnant and have children at an early age have a decreased risk of developing breast cancer in later life; however, any pregnancy after age 35 increases the risk of breast cancer”
This global trend towards much later pregnancies while women spend their twenties and thirties on their education and careers goes against the female biology in which the prime conditions for childbearing occur in much earlier.
The modern world has opened up educational and career opportunities to women to an extent never before seen in homo sapiens society. Where heterosexual marriage in agricultural society created the economic and social framework under which women reproduced and could received the appropriate level of resource and physical security for childbearing and child raising, the modern world has replaced marriage as the number one economic vehicle with direct access to economic opportunities.
This leaves marriage for the modern woman a trimmed down institution servicing cultural emotional expectations (often artificially and tragically inflated by popular culture) and co-parenting.
I propose a new method of reproduction, one that allows the female full use of her physiology at its most fertile and reproductively secure stage, and direct access to economic opportunity.
I’ll have to outline this idea in another post. I’ve got a tennis meet up to go to. Let’s just say this new model, a model for all society, will be loosely based on the matrilineal society of the Mosuo culture.