Quick poll - were YOU breastfed or formula fed?

[FFFS]

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.

BF for months which was good going in the 60's but first food at something horrendously early like 4 weeks, but twas the fashion in that (private) hospital at the time. They were also handing out Phalidomide like sweets there as well - for morning sickness i think. Fortunately mum didn't like taking pills so didn't have any repercussions from that.

I am 50 educated to PGCE level, 5 '7" tall and size 10/12.
I like to think I have good looks but couldn't earn a living from them.

FF from birth by single mother (or might as well have been)

Educated to degree level and bf own daughter till she was 5 yrs old.

5ft 10 and about 9 and a half stone.

Brother and I both FF.
Brother has degree from Cambridge. I have a BA and MA and jacked in a PhD halfway through (but I would have completed it if I'd been bf, of course ).
I have no weight issues. Brother overweight.
I have twins - lost a lot of blood during delivery, so breast milk never came in and ended up ff. Twins are 4 now and appear to have no allergies or health issues. Both doing well at preschool; both healthy heights and weights. In an ideal world, would have loved to have breastfed. But the children are happy and healthy (as am I), so I don't beat myself (or my mother) up over it.

I was FF from birth. Am 42, slim, quite intelligent. Never had any significant illnesses, no allergies.

I like this thread. I've often wanted to point out to new mums who are getting stressed about BF that even though I BF DS it wouldn't have bothered me in the slightest if I couldn't do it because FF is a perfectly viable alternative.

Totally FF here too. Obviously I am gorgeous, slim and smart too!

When I was a baby mothers weren't really encouraged to BF so I was given formula from birth but apparently it didn't agree with me so the midwife told my mum to feed me with diluted evaporated milk

I am heathly, slim and intelligent though - at least I think so

I BF both my daughters though until they were a year

Missy thats funny I know several people whose bf dc's excema is far worse than the brief spell my ff ds had.

Judging by your complete ignorance re diabetes I think we'll take your latest medical advice with a pinch of salt.....and yes I know I've spelt excema wrong.

FF from birth as adopted. My son was FF as well. Normal weight range, 5 feet 9, I write database code, admin databases & manage Marketing.

Have no 'typical' FF issues, I have a stomach ulcer but that's from NSAID's

I was ff from about 5 days old as west cumberland did not really do bf support in the 1970s and my poor old mama really struggled with dreadful combination of massive norks and inverted nipples. she has suffered far more than i have, although both me and my little brother were always being ill when we were small.

When i picked up my PhD a few years ago, my mum commented that if I had been bf i would probably have been a danger to society.

Both my sister and I were BF till 4 months and 6 months then FF.
I BF both mine till 14 and 16 months.

I was a 60's baby and so ff as was my brother.
My oldest was only bf for about a week as he lost a lot of weight as unknown to us at the time has a genitic condition that meant his sucking was poor.

Second child bb until around 2, not weaned at all until about 9 months as he just had no interest in food. He was the child who caught chicken pox at 3 months, had eczema and athsma and even baby acne due to over load of my hormones.

Now both teenagers neither one is overweight but the youngest is skinny but not underweight and has mostly outgrown both his eczema and athsma.

Breastfed for 6 months, then my mum weaned me with carnation milk... Seriously. I BF my DD 'till she was two. obviously because I am v. intelligent but I am overweight

My brother and I were both FF. My mum tried to BF me but stopped - can't remember why. She was intending to BF my brother too but the matron of the hospital told her "he's so big, he'll eat you, me and the rest of the nursery" and wouldn't let her. They had to send out for special extra thick big baby gloop for him, bless him.

Both of us struggle with our weight but then so do our cousins who were both BF. I think it is more genetic in our family than anything - that is, a genetic love for cake.

I was breastfed, though I think my Mam gave me some formula occasionally.

DH was breastfed until two months, when his mum was told to put him on solid foods as her milk apparently wasn't nourishing enough?

(I breastfed DS till he was 15 months, though sometimes I think that was more to do with not being able to afford an alternative than anything else)

Pretty much FF - pretty much been fat since age 18, but I am smart(ish)

I was BF for 2 months, then FF. Educated to degree level, slim and no health issues. Same as all my siblings who were a BF for between 2 and 8 weeks and then FF (2 sisters, 1 brother).

just asked my mum by text
i've not broached the subject before because i didn't want her to wonder why i was asking!

her reply: I did for about 2 weeks cos you were not getting enough. weaning was easy cos you cry when you're hungry. most babies do better bottle feeding for some. at least you know how much they are getting. can't tell you, just have to see how you go.

(i think that's what she said cos it was mostly in text speak, and no punctuation at all!!

i was born in 1976, so it looks like she'd followed the standard advice.

I actually feel a bit guilty now, cos i always assumed that i was BF for about 3/4 months, and i have made several pointed statements to my sisters, both of whom didn't even try to BF about that they should give it a go. Looks like it might have hit a raw nerve with mum. [blush and

just replied to her asking what she did with my sisters (one older, one younger)

I went to uni, and am slim.
my sisters didn't (big sis was lazy, little sis not academic) - we're all slim.

reply about sisters:
about the same. felt more comfortable when bottle feeding. could see how much you all were getting and i was less stressed.

As I said, DH was breastfed, his brother wasn't. Brother is taller and slimmer, and much more academic, did much better at school. DH is a 'happier' person though!

Yup, nickelbabe I was 2 weeks BF then on to bottles and I was 1976 too...Perhaps there was a health visitors' leaflet out at the time!

Anyhow, can drive a car and do flat-pack furniture so I get by. Although, I do have a lifelong craving for tip-top milk, which is a bit odd.

Me and my sister -Formula fed - full of allergies/asthma and I bad eczema as a child.

My brother - breastfed, no allergies.

Ds1 - mostly breastfed but I paniced in early days and 'topped up' with formula a few times - range of food allergies including dairy, but no asthma/eczema.

Ds2 and dnephew- breastfed, no dairy til age 1. no allergies.

Conclusion: given the propensity for allergies in my family (esp. dairy) I think breastfeeding is best - but this is a very individual decision based on our crappy genes genetics.