Please can you help re-assure my DH about my choice to BF DD until she is 1. She is currently 10.5 months.
We live in France where BFing past 6 months does not seem common and if this happens it is often mixed feeding.
For example at 9 months DN was bf in the day and had a bottle of milk and cereal at night.
Follow-on milk is also the norm.
We discussed whether to go to formula when she was 6 months and decided not to, he said he was happy with whatever I decided as I was the one doing the feeding. Now he doesn?t seem so happy about it and I think it may be because other people have been giving him helpful advice.
I know he just wants what is best for our DD so I hope you can help me reassure him that what I am doing is okay.
These are his worries;
That she will be/is clingy. She is actually very sociable and happy to go to other family members and even complete strangers, but of course I am her main focus as I am the main carer.
That if we gave her a night bottle of milk and cereal she would sleep through. She can and has slept through. If she wakes in the night she is easily settled with a BF, though at the moment I can tell it is more comfort than for food.
That because she doesn?t sleep through her temperament and motor development are affectrd. She is a happy and very alert baby. She only just started crawling but has been standing and walking with help for a while. She never went through the roll round the room phase.
I would like to say I do not think there is anything wrong with our child. If you can also explain other benefits that would help too.
Thanks.
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Please can you help re-assure my DH about my choice to BF DD until she is 1.
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columbosmac · 21/07/2009 06:12
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