I'll give a bit of background so that hopefully you will fully understand my question. I was diagnosed with MS in Oct., 2003. I was hospitalized for a few days, during which time I nursed my 2.5 yo ds as much as possible. When it looked very possible that I'd be taking some major drugs, I started cutting way back on the nursing. Up until then, he was nursing quite frequently still. My plan (before all this) was to nurse until he wanted to stop, which didn't seem likely to be soon, as much as he liked it. Anyway, I've decided not to take the drugs, so I didn't have to wean completely. But it became apparant pretty quickly that I just can't handle frequent nursing or "marathon" nursing any more. What we've found that works for us is to nurse 2x a day -- naptime and bedtime. I chose those times because he doesn't nurse as long at those times (usually) and because I just don't have the energy right now to find other ways to get him to sleep. My accupuncurist would like me to wean completely, because it's draining for my body, but he also understands there is a psychological aspect to it that's important. And I really don't want to wean ds completely, and he doesn't want to wean completely either (although he's stopped asking for it except on the rare occasion that he's super tired, which is really sad 
).
That said, I've been worrying lately about how good my milk is for ds at this point. I've gone the alternative route in terms of treatment for MS. I had my fillings replaced about 10 yrs. ago, and my health improved (this was before the MS diagnosis, but my health was not good). I did a lot of detox at the time to try to get rid of as much mercury as possible. I didn't listen to my dr., though, and in the last couple of years I started eating fish again (he had said that I should never eat fish again). Not often (about 1x a month or less), and only wild Alaskan salmon (after realizing that farm raised wasn't OK at all -- I'd eaten it a few times, but not much), until a visit to my parents, when we had Oregon salmon several times in a week. I tell you all of that so you know that I probably don't have a huge mercury load, but I do have some -- certainly enough to affect my health. I've stopped eating fish, BTW, and anything else from the sea.
I really feel that the gorging on fish that week is what brought on this attack. So I've gotten back in the program, and a big part of that is detoxing. I'm worried about mercury in my breastmilk. Does anyone know how much gets into breastmilk? Do I need to wean ds for his health?
Just so you know, the detoxing has consisted of 4 C-flushes (basically taking so much vit. C that my system is flushed out), vit. C daily (about 9 g/day), and detox baths (epsom salts in the bath water) 2-3x/week. Plus they've got me on some supplements (sulfur and selenium) that gently pull mercury.
Please help me know what to do!! I get so worried about this. I don't want to do anything that affects ds's health, but nursing is still so important to both of us.
Thanks for reading through all of this. I hope it makes some sort of sense. If it doesn't, feel free to ask questions.
Christie
).That said, I've been worrying lately about how good my milk is for ds at this point. I've gone the alternative route in terms of treatment for MS. I had my fillings replaced about 10 yrs. ago, and my health improved (this was before the MS diagnosis, but my health was not good). I did a lot of detox at the time to try to get rid of as much mercury as possible. I didn't listen to my dr., though, and in the last couple of years I started eating fish again (he had said that I should never eat fish again). Not often (about 1x a month or less), and only wild Alaskan salmon (after realizing that farm raised wasn't OK at all -- I'd eaten it a few times, but not much), until a visit to my parents, when we had Oregon salmon several times in a week. I tell you all of that so you know that I probably don't have a huge mercury load, but I do have some -- certainly enough to affect my health. I've stopped eating fish, BTW, and anything else from the sea.
I really feel that the gorging on fish that week is what brought on this attack. So I've gotten back in the program, and a big part of that is detoxing. I'm worried about mercury in my breastmilk. Does anyone know how much gets into breastmilk? Do I need to wean ds for his health?
Just so you know, the detoxing has consisted of 4 C-flushes (basically taking so much vit. C that my system is flushed out), vit. C daily (about 9 g/day), and detox baths (epsom salts in the bath water) 2-3x/week. Plus they've got me on some supplements (sulfur and selenium) that gently pull mercury.
Please help me know what to do!! I get so worried about this. I don't want to do anything that affects ds's health, but nursing is still so important to both of us.
Thanks for reading through all of this. I hope it makes some sort of sense. If it doesn't, feel free to ask questions.
Christie
