ds1 only about 10m, wish it had been longer . ds2 3 1/2 yrs

How long did you feed your ds1 for Maman?

oh unfortunately I have to say the Vegan Society website isn't great regards extended breastfeeding (or at least it wasn't when I checked it last) but apart from that it's good.

Paranoid I completely agree, the longer you go on breastfeeding the fewer comments you will have. I found once ds2 was about 12m most people assumed I'd stopped anyway.

By the time we realised about ds1 reacting to soya, he was already >12m so we didn't really have to give him any kind of milk at all. Rather than looking for dairy substitutes we just had a diet with no dairy in it. He ate so well that the nursery chef said she didn't mind cooking him special meals because she knew he would eat it all! The only slight concern was whether he was getting enough calcium, but I didn't even have to give him calcium drops. I found the vegan society website useful for non-dairy sources of calcium. He had calcium-fortified orange juice on his cereal, which we later switched to rice milk. And lots of hoummous, broccoli, apricots, raisins, homemade wholemeal bread etc.

Olivo well done for keeping going. Ds2 did not have any intolerances but did have severe reflux. I found the healthcare professionals were quite confused by a breastfed baby having reflux. I lost count of the number of times I was offered a prescription for Neocate or Nutramigen - despite them paying lipservice to how good it was that I was still breastfeeding.

If I ever started to doubt myself I used to call a La Leche League leader as they were always very reassuring. (I did this when ds2 was in hospital at 6m old after heart failure and they were trying to get me to give him chocolate pudding ffs.)

for the reassurance

Thank you all to the reassurance- it's lovely to talk to people who are like-minded about bfing.

Tiktok- I wasn't sure what the prescription formulas were made of but I was thinking they must be very synthetic. Now I am armed with more than 'they taste horrible and he's bound to not want them'!!

belgo - she can read the tin

It says cows milk on it.

Main ingredient on ingreds list is skimmed milk, IIRC.

but I do try and not use his cow's milk allergy as the reason for carrying on bfing, as I would still be bfing him anyway even if he didn't have any allergies.

tiktok - can you come and explain that to my mil please she tried to tell me to switch ds to follow on milk. She looked at me doubtfully when I told her he couldn't have it as it is cow's milk.