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"It&amp;#39;s official: I am no longer breastfeeding. I was slowly tapering and introducing formula last week but when I got mastitis again, I decided to just go for it and quit cold turkey (pumping when you have 104 fever is just not an option as far as I&amp;#39;m concerned). I&amp;#39;m glad I did because it turns out, of course, that I did test positive for that infection that&amp;#39;s swarming through the hospital where I delivered (the infection is called MRSA...gross). The antibiotics I&amp;#39;m on for the mastitis may or may not knock out the MRSA...I have to go back to the hospital next week for follow-up tests (don&amp;#39;t even get me started on how annoying this is). In the meantime, I just have to wash my hands constantly and hope for the best--MRSA is a skin infection and it&amp;#39;s spread from skin-to-skin contact...again, gross.\nThanks to an endless supply of frozen peas, my boobs are doing OK. And I have zero guilt...could be the fact that I was basically sick or in pain the entire time I breastfed. Or the fact that Alex is happy to eat whatever you put in front of him (seriously, if you let your hand get too close to his mouth when he&amp;#39;s hungry he&amp;#39;ll grab your fingers and try to shove them down his throat). I&amp;#39;m also quite enjoying not being tied down to the pump. And being able to drink real coffee (if I ever feel better, I&amp;#39;ll gulp a nice glass of wine finally, too). I made it a little over a month with the breastfeeding. I&amp;#39;m so glad I did it and I&amp;#39;m so glad it&amp;#39;s over. Time to go back to reality: my cancer meds. I&amp;#39;m going to start the Gleevec in the next day or so (um, as soon as I fill the prescription...whoops, just thought of that!). Dr. Mauro will be guest blogging tomorrow and he&amp;#39;ll explain a little more about why, even though my cancer is completely undetectable, I&amp;#39;m still going back on. Be sure to check out his post. And thanks for all the breastfeeding support over the past month. Clearly, I needed it.--Erin"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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