9 months - one year after birth because it takes a while before the iron supply in your body is normal again. The time might be longer if you breastfeed.
You can only donate after you have stopped breastfeeding. But after that they will be so happy to get your donation, because during a couple of months after breastfeeding you will still have some antibodies (or suchlike) in your blood and those are very beneficial for sick people. Your blood will be given especially to small children.
That's what they told me at the Red Cross blood donation campaign when I donated blood. I had just stopped breastfeeding. The nurse gave my bloodsack a special treatment, it was specially marked and dispatched forward without the usual let's-gather-this-box-full-and-then-call-the-driver. I felt like a champion. :-)
Oh, by the way, this is your big sis writing. Have a nice day!
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Date: 2005-08-19 08:39 pm (UTC)That's what they told me at the Red Cross blood donation campaign when I donated blood. I had just stopped breastfeeding. The nurse gave my bloodsack a special treatment, it was specially marked and dispatched forward without the usual let's-gather-this-box-full-and-then-call-the-driver. I felt like a champion. :-)
Oh, by the way, this is your big sis writing. Have a nice day!
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