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 2 weeks them mum got mastitus (sp?)

FF my DS as i didnt produce BM

Formula fed. Have exactly same allergies as brother who was breast fed, but he has them worse then me! I'm a size ten, degree educated...

My sister was bf i was ff. She picked up bugs easily as a child and still does, i very rarely get ill and didn't get ill hardly at all as a child.

Both dc were ff, dd has a really strong immune system like me, ds picks things up easier.

BF for a month or so along with my twin. Then FF. Brother was exclusively bm fed for 10 months. Twin and I both have postgrad degrees with distinction. Brother jacked in formal education early on through lack of interest. Oh and he had childhood asthma

Doesn't prove anything though!

I was formula fed but am roaring laughing at those who were formula fed and are clearly linking this to their current chunkiness - its because you eat too much junk and dont do enough exercise !

Liking the 'anecdata'!

I was bf but I doubt for very long - 3 to 4 months max, probably - it was the 70s and early weaning was the done thing. My sister was ff after my mum 'ran dry' in the first couple of weeks.

We are both very bright and have degrees a plenty plus excellent careers (or rather I did until I became a SAHM!). I'm the thin one and my health is significantly better than little sis. I am sad for her because mum had always gone on and on about how she 'never had any problems' bf-ing but when I struggled last year with DS it all came out and I think my sis was a bit shocked. There's a catalogue of 'we did this for you but didn't bother with your sister' tales in our family but I think this was a really upsetting one to hear. The culture really has changed - I just assumed my mum had bf-ed us both until 6 months but of course that's a very recent phenomenon.

BF to 5/7 months (can't remember which, was weaned in a rush so my mum could go skiing!). Not sure what I had after that, cow's milk probably.

Six A-levels and an Oxford degree plus postgraduate diploma Bit chubby, as are all my immediate family, will probably make it to 80s-90s judging by my grandparents but that's genes really. Plenty of bfed skinnies in my family too, I just fell down the chunky side of the tree :)

I was exclusively breastfed till 7 months when I had food introduced and carried on breastfeeding until I self-weaned just before aged 2.

I've always had to watch my weight and am prone to chunkiness. My slight tendency to overeat was before I ever tasted food, and the clinic-sister advised my mum to wean me off the breast because I was overeating (!) of course my mum ignored her. By today's standards I was 75th centile at 6 months - I've got my clinic book with my weights!

I'm not thick but dont think I would have been if I was FF either.

I am 24. I was breastfed until around 2, and my mother started weaning me at nine months by letting me "pick carrots out of [her] rice. Slightly curried, of course". Baby-led weaning is not new guys.

Although I think it had less to do with trusting babies' instincts, and more to do with my mother's concerns over the cleanliness of the kitchen in first the single-parents' hostel, and later the bed-sit.

I'm a bit plump, but that has nowt to do with what milk I consumed as an infant, and I would describe myself as plain.

No allergies except for hayfever. I get the average amount of colds.

Intelligence? Well, I'm hardly an unbiased judge, am I? I never applied to university, due to personal circumstances (I was scared of the loan, and various shoddy excuses) but I'm very good at using revision guides for lower level qualifications. Which isn't the same thing, is it? Damn.

Breastfed my boys to 20 months +

I don't think anyone thinks BLW is new, do they? Part of Gill Rapley's book covers the history of babyfeeding and (iirc) the fact that BLW is far older than puree feeding.

Older brother FF, overweight, athsma, bad immune system and mental health issues

the following 5 (myself included) were all EBF till 6-9 months, and BF till at least 2, and have IQ's over 160, fantastic health in all respects and are all slim except me, but that is more because I'm greedy and lazy and they're not

I think we're all average attractivenes, though I don't see houw FF/BF affects that...

I and my younger sister BF our children to 17/18 months. My older sister FF, as she had no support (cut herself off from family and was discouraged by the in laws/DH as BF was yukky)

I have no issue with those who FF as they COULDN'T, but I take massive offense to anyone that can't be bothered/thinks it's gross, but I can err on the lactavist side at times...

FWIW, I actually think BF can be very hard work and did have problems (poor latch, reccuring thrush, painfull feeding to the end, oversupply then undersupply...) so I am not sitting in judgement having had a breezy time.

I think a lot of the issue is that having had a generation of FF, when the breast is best line is trotted out lots of people's backs go up as they are assuming that what that means is FF = evil child abuse, meaning they feel judged and maligned and therefore will not encourage BF in others.. Advice changes, why we can't just go with the flow a bit more escapes me

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But then I am also happy to be flamed for thinking that a lot of people should have tried a bit harder/sought support rather than just giving up at the first hurdle because it's easier to give a baby hugry milk that will keep it full for 4 hours than feed every hour on demand

I'll give myself my first

I was BF - fairly intelligent, size 6-8. Does that help?

BF, in pretty much perfect health at 50, no allergies ... PhD, and enough knowledge of statistics to know that a 'quick poll' on this subject will tell you nothing significant

Some people seem to. Mind you, now that I actually think about it, none of them were aficionados of BLW, and they certainly hadn't read Gill Rapley's book. They generally inclined to a bemused viewpoint of, "What's this weird thing all the young mums are doing these days? "

Formula

All 4 of us were FF.

My eldest brother works with computers and is due to emigrate to portugal later this year. Normal weight and healthy.

Second brother is the manager of a clothes shop, Is tall and slim and healthy

Third brother is a head mechanic, has jsut passed extra exams in amths etc. He is overweight but healthy.

Myself- I am still carrying the baby weight from my youngest but have lost 3 stone in the last 9 months. I have worked as a childcarer, and also a carer in a care home for people with dementia. Currently stay at home with my 2 daughters. I have very mild asthma and used to suffer from ezcema but that seems to be common for all the girls in our family for some reason (except the baby so far)

Neither! Carnation milk (watered down!) and brown sugar for me... I blame my early diet for my incredibly sweet tooth, and slightly overweight body, but on the plus side my IQ isn't bad!

My brother was bf and he too is overweight and smart though, so maybe more genetic than milk type based?

I was FF and am fat, ugly, but have a first class honours degree and I don't think I'm dead yet

it's all to do with the Nature-versus-Nurture debate.

my sisters and i were all raised the same, yet we have completely different outlooks on life.
that one's got to do with the circles we went in at school and in life.

FF from the start. I have no allergies and am very healthy but I am a bit of a fatty

i forgot about allergies - i havn't got any, but little sis is a bit asthmatic.

BF for 6 weeks then formula for me. I don;t get what the fuss is TBH. The same thing doesn;t work for every woman and if BF doesn;t work for you then you shouldn't feel any shame in using formula. Likewise, just because you are able to BF successfully doesn;t mean it's the right way.

when i say "you" I don't refer to anybody in particular but thought saying "one" would souhnd a bit wanky!!

Yes, 'one' would sound wanky and yet also intelligent. Exactly what I would expect from a BF person

Breast to age of one.
By which I actually mean '1', not 'you'