In the news- Breastfeeding, or rather not feeding helped mum spot cancer.

[LittleMissBliss]

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1076916/Babies-wouldnt-breastfeed-helped-young-mother-detect-canc er.html

Just thought it may interest.

Gosh!

Lots of babies refuse one breast though, so I hope this article doesn't scare people needlessly.

better to scare people into a quick visit to the gp rather than to ignore and it be the worst outcome i reccon.

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Mind you, it is the daily mail

what's the for? They aren't going to make something like that up!

common sence

"Martin Ledwick, from Cancer Research UK, said: 'Breast cancer in women of this age group is extremely rare and difficulty in breastfeeding is not usually a warning sign.' "

Scaremongering

"'My babies obviously thought the milk tasted or smelt strange because of the breast cancer,"

This goes back to when "milk sours" during periods. It doesnt.

The dai;y mail is well known for its anit breasting attitude.

I am confused, so she thinks the breast cancer made her first baby refuse the breast yet it wasn't so virilant that nearly 3 years later

"doctors say they are confident that they have caught the disease in time to save her life."

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This isnt anti bf though, if she hadn't tried to bf she may have to thought to have checked that breast for a lump. How do you not know that the milk didn't taste or smell weird because of the cancer in her breast?

The taste of the milk can change when you fall pregnant and babies can be put off feeding.

Very unusual story. Don't think any lessons can be drawn from it. And doubt it was cancer that caused her first baby to refuse the breast, otherwise she would have been dead long ago.

Basically, she found a lump three years after having baby no. 1 who refused to feed from one breast.

Glad she found the lump and got it checked out, obviously.