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AIBU?

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Quick poll - were YOU breastfed or formula fed?

231 replies

FFFS · 15/02/2011 20:24

If you were formula fed, you are probably, thick, fat and/or dead/on your last legs by now.

If you were breastfed, you are probably highly intelligent, with supermodel looks and are 125/going to reach 125 (but only if you were EBF until you were 16).

AIBU?

Yes, I know a thread about a thread but I could not resist.

OP posts:
whatagradeA · 15/02/2011 22:15

Sister was bf til about a year. I was bf for a few weeks. I'm the pretty, clever one Wink

NorthernGobshite · 15/02/2011 22:16

I was formula fed. I am overweight but thats the bsicuits not the formula! I do have a Masters degree so I am both proving and dispelling the myths!

Jacanne · 15/02/2011 22:21

FF with a lifetime weight problem. Degree educated. Have BF all three of my children all of whom, so far, are fairly skinny thank goodness and really quite bright (she says modestly). I hope that BF gives them some advantage on the weight front - am encouraging them to eat healthily and lead active lives - don't want them dieting at 10 like I was -half my problem I think :)

xstitch · 15/02/2011 22:24

I ended up ff after my mum's milk never came in (same happened when I tried to feed my own dd). Degree educated, size 12. I am as ugly as fuck but tbh I am a lost cause and no amount of bf would have solved that.

abbierhodes · 15/02/2011 22:36

I was ff. Am a little overweight but don't associate the two.

SheikYerbouti · 15/02/2011 22:39

Breastfed

I am fick n fat, innit?

OOAOML · 15/02/2011 22:39

Formula fed from birth, reasonably intelligent, overweight and quite a few skin/allergy problems.

megapixels · 15/02/2011 22:53

70s baby here. Breastfed for over a year. Been skinny all my life and filled out only after having children. Never been fat. University educated. Healthy so far.

Viking75 · 15/02/2011 23:06

bottle fed in 1975, have never weighed more than 8.5 stone have a 2:1 in Biochemistry, have had 1 day off work in the last 10 years (busy/stressul & v demanding job)sorry, blows that 'theory' out the window!

wineonafridaynight · 15/02/2011 23:09

Formula Fed. Size 8-10. Did alright for myself educationally. Got some GCSE's, Alevels and a degree. Unemployed now though - clearly if I'd been breast thread I still be in employment! Wink

TheSecondComing · 15/02/2011 23:13

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donkeyderby · 15/02/2011 23:14

I was apparently bottle fed on watered down Carnation milk....I am highly intelligent, overweight and deeply unsuccessful

MissyKLo · 15/02/2011 23:17

My brother was ff and caught diabetes in his teens
His daughter was ff and caught diabetes at 8 years of age - a link to not being bf? Could be

I was ff too - I am sure my brother and I would have been better off on lovely breast milk than formula but that's what happened!

MilaMae · 15/02/2011 23:17

I was bf initially(not long) then went onto formula(with rusks and raw egg thrown in to keep me quiet).

Soooo do I have one healthy leg and one not healthy leg?

Ladyofthehousespeaking · 15/02/2011 23:19

Goat milk fed!
(not joking!)
never been overweight, perfick bmi
not too clever
awesome immune system

monkeyjamtart · 15/02/2011 23:21

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MoonUnitAlpha · 15/02/2011 23:23

Breastfed and am breastfeeding my own baby. Totally the norm in my family and wouldn't choose to formula feed, but I do think it's a perfectly adequate breastmilk substitute if necessary!

LilQueenie · 15/02/2011 23:25

"caught diabetes" You dont catch it. its more to do with sugar levels normally from food you eat. Highy unlikely to be a few months of FF. Confused

Mibby · 15/02/2011 23:35

BF for about 4 weeks then FF.

Decent looking, good degree, decent job, few allergies but same ones as Dad so likely to be genetic

DH was FF from birth

IQ of 147, no allergies but has psoriasis, nice looking.

DD1 is currently being mixed fed (mostly BF plus a bedtime bottle)

xstitch · 15/02/2011 23:38

You don't catch diabetes. There are some viruses that are thought to be capable of destroying beta cells in the islets of Lagerhans in the pancreas and thereby impairing the body's ability to handle sugar. Obesity, genetic factors can predispose people to develop diabetes.

MardyBra · 15/02/2011 23:40

Breastfed (don't know how long for) - and a size 20

MardyBra · 15/02/2011 23:40

Anyway what's this got to do with AIBU?

anniemac · 15/02/2011 23:41

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MardyBra · 15/02/2011 23:41

Oh and I have an MA

begonyabampot · 15/02/2011 23:42

FF but it was the 60's an all that! Also smoked about 40 a day as a baby - mum was a chain smoking fag hag! Explains it all really, what chance did I have?