..To Think That The Benefits Of Breatfeeding Are A load Of Tosh?...

[CheekyVimtoGal]

I breastfed my 1st DS from day one, he fed for 6 weeks completely on Breastmilk with no formula at all.
I got mastitas 3 times and gave up feeding him at 6 weeks due to the pain and his constant hourly feeds, it was draining me.

I then said i felt like a failure for it, and that if i had anymore children i would feed them for at least 6months to a year.

When i fell pregnant with DS2 i was adamant Breastfeeding was for me, so much so that i did not buy any bottles at all.

After i had DS2 he didnt have his first feed for 2 hours due to the damage to my area, it took the midwife an hour to stitch me up. He finally got a feed 2 hours after been born and wasn't latching on properly.

Until i went home i tried my hardest to get him to latch on and suckle from me. It was no good and i was already a failure, he wouldn't latch on and he had to have a replacement forumla to replace low sugars (or something similar - i forget now, as i was still out of it from the drugs)

Now that was 2 years ago and he was a sicky baby, had reflux and didn't wean until he was 10 months old.

My oldest son who was breastfed eats anything and everything but catches EVERY illness going.

My youngest son who wasn't breastfed has NEVER been ill.

Sooo, as for the benefits of Breastfeeding - what is it meant to be, because i do not find it has helped my sons immune system at all!

YABU OP, obviously.

Sorry you had trouble BFing though and sad to see you say 'I was already a failure'. Try not to dwell too much on it; you did your best and I'm sure your children love you nonetheless!

I am inclined to agree that they are overstated. I breastfed two children for ten months each. The eldest has asthma and the youngest has eczema. Dc2 also got chicken pox at 9 months while he was still being breast fed.

I'm not saying I regret breastfeeding them, but I felt like I was doing something so award-winningly marvellous at the time. NOt so sure now.

And larks i dont think op was joking, the other thread is her apologising if she caused offence to you lot that jumped on her like a pack of wolves. i think its kind of clear she was genuinely wondering about the statistics in the medical as in RL it does not always reflect everything they say, so she was wondering why breast wasnt best for one of her dc's.

maybe sometimes things like this should be re posted, so others in the same position can hear first hand from RL people, some realities. and what i dont understand why half of you just came on to pop at her, blah blah dont ya think some of your whinings get a bit yawn IYSWIM.

oh and whoever said something about the op shouldnt be on mn, to you i say who died and made you god, last time i checked it was a public forum.

without reading anything other than the op - YABU. One anecdote doesn't change the overall situation.

HoppingHeather what a ridiculous comment Why don't we do it forever; so the lack of tongue thrust that occurs, should we just avoid that? Your statement makes no sense.

Its not really worth answering this but my view is that for me, the benefits are huge... I don't really care at all whether its healthier or not.

For me its easy convienent & enjoyable. Never had any problems with sore nipples or otherwise. These are huge benefits (for me) that is hard to argue with.

Breastfeeding has many benefits- but it doesn't work for everybody.

I have exclusivley BF my dd - now 9 months- the main reason I've continued is that its so convienient for me- no bottles/ formula.

I do think of the health benefits but if I had struggled I probably would have stopped after 6 months.

FWIW my sister and I were both BF- I am never ill she was a very sickly child- thats just the way it worked out and obviously nothing to do with our milk- I wouldn't keep comparing your children and their health and bringing it down to the BF v's FF benefits- it would just do your head in

My dd eats a lot of fruit but still has constant colds and other infections.

Does this tell us that there are no health benefits to eating fruit? No of course not. What it does tell us that is that eating fruit is one of many factors that can influence health. Not a complete exclusive panacaea that is guaranteed to outweigh any other factor. Still worth doing.

Same with breastfeeding.

Only time I have wondered about was the time when dd's breastfeeding was going so badly that she was actually undernorished: that was possibly a time when you could have used her poor health as an argument against bf. For her. In that particular situation. But that is going to be true of very few babies.

Usually poor health in bf babies is going to be despite of bf'ing, not because of it- and you have no idea how they would have been if bottle fed instead.

So no sign of the OP coming to answer any of our questions, or to back up her daft opinions, then?

Didn't think so.

No-one has ever said that breastfeeding guarantees perfect health and no illness whatsoever.

I don't understand where people get their info from.

If you breastfeed your child, you are not going to be miraculously awarded a childhood free of coughs and colds, chicken-pox and various other ailments. You might get all of them, one after the other.

However, if you breastfeed your child, you are less likely to encounter so many health problems (both in childhood and later in life). Or they could well have been worse or more frequent if you had FF, you won't necessarily know.

The health of your child or children on its own is statistically irrelevant when compared with the overall picture.

Can those who think the benefits are over-stated see the difference?

yawn!

I think statistics and the understanding of the scientific method needs to be taught in schools so that people understand that a sample size of 2 isn't a convincing argument.

(I have no axe to grind, BTW, I FF fed both of mine and I'm not going to even bother explaining why.)

StayingDavidTennantsgirl - OP is probably having a day off.

She posted something like 95 times yesterday....

sorry but rofl at "mastitas"

Spanish mastitis?

I really think it is a bit strange to base your assumption on 2 children.

My DD was bf for 12mths and DS was mix fed for 8mths. DS has been ill more than DD (but maybe that is because DD brings home more 'germs' from school/nursery), but DD has eczema (DS hasn't). Personally I put down the illness thing to DS being a boy and therefore having no pain threshold but I guess that is another sweeping generalisation based on no evidence!!!!

Do you think maybe that those of us who have EBF for a considerable time should ask for an apology/compensation from the World Health Organisation if our children get stomach upsets/eczema etc. After all, weren't we guaranteed a 'well' child .....

By StayingDavidTennantsGirl Wed 05-May-10 14:04:13
So no sign of the OP coming to answer any of our questions, or to back up her daft opinions, then?

Didn't think so.

Whats the point, i only tested 2 babies and not 2000.

Tiktok you keep track on how many posts someone did, how odd.

and the reason she probably hasnt come back, is she was to busy having a laugh with normal people not being torn to shreds

Yes i left the bitchy bench for the buddy bench

Lol lovemybigtv

fancy seeing you here

Yes fancy seeing me here. Thought id come for a nose before i start tea hows you today?

Does seem odd, I know, Tired....I don't make a habit of it, in my defence I searched her name to see if she had posted elsewhere today, to see if she was delib. not returning here, and was staggered to see her activity levels.

I shall now go and get myself a life

Tired lol and you?

oooh i have a stalker tiktok

yes im tired too. My sister called me at 8am this morning and woke me up!! I was getting up at 8.30 anyway because boys dont get up til 8.30ish but my phone woke my youngest up [grrr] lol

One thing about these threads intrigues me. There's almost always a defiant formula feeder who cites pressure to breastfeed, and may well mention breastfeeding nazis. These nazis will, however, entirely fail to materialise on the thread.

Anyway, if we're talking crap stats, I had thrush and mastitis, and an emcs, and yet here is my ebf six month old who has had the odd cold and is yet to discover the grand unified theory of the universe.

My DH is the biggest bf-ing nazi I have ever come across, mind you. Woe betide the OP if he ever finds this thread.

Please don't use the term BF Nazi, even in jest, it is extremely offensive.