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size=2>From: Gila Atwood <gila@atwood.co.il><BR>>> The only
other time over 12 years of childbearing and nursing I've had to break the fast
was Tisha BeAv when I was nursing a baby seven months old. (supplemented)
It was 3 p.m. on a hot afternoon and I was starting to feel faint. Husband
insisted I drink my fill right then. <<</FONT></DIV>
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size=2>This reminds me that many rabbanim are even more mekil (or I should
really say, machmir) with a nursing mother than with a pregnant woman, because
/if/ the infant's only source of liquid is his mother's milk, and /if/ the
mother becomes dehydrated, then it is actually pikuach nefesh for the
baby. Even according to those who say that you don't have to worry about a
miscarriage because there's no issue of pikuach nefesh to save a fetus (which
BTW are there really people who say that?), there is certainly an issue with a
baby that is born already.</FONT></DIV>
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size=2>In my case my babies were willing to take liquid from a bottle or
sippy cup and they were not newborns by the time I got to YK, so I nursed them
only a little and fobbed them off with other drinks, and didn't have to break my
fast on TB or YK. (I did stay in bed most of the day, did not go to shul
even at night for Eicha or Kol Nidre, and kept as quiet and cool as
possible, and thank G-d for air-conditioning.)</FONT></DIV>
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PTSIZE="10"><BR><B>--Toby
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