100% breastfeeders - please come and say hello - feeling a little isolated here!

[Miaou]

I'm the only bfeeder in RL in my group of friends, and it seems that much of my postnatal group on here is mixed feeding. I've now reached the point where the tiredness is getting to me and I have reached a low ebb. Many people (out of kindness) have suggested I should begin weaning or introduce a bottle, which I am really not ready to do. Fortunately dh backs me all the way but I would like to chat to other 100% breastfeeders (past or present), just to reassure me that I'm not my own!

Just come and say hello and maybe we can offer each other a boost if/when we are feeling down!

Can I jump in?
DS is 8 months. Was exclusively breast fed til 25 weeks then solids introduced.
I work four days a week and he is still fully breast fed plus solid food....

Welcome popsy Do you express milk for during the days when you work, or does he drink water during the day?

Merryberry - wow! Well done for sticking with it! That's an achievement you will carry with you for the rest of your life, isn't it.

100% bfing here too - just introducing solids very gradually (ds six months next week).

Thought I would post because when ds was about sixteen weeks he was sleeping so badly that I bowed to the pressure and made up a bottle of formula. I tried to give it to him at his first night waking but was in floods of tears and so very much didn't want to do it. Hadn't really realised until then how much I wanted to avoid formula (just for me and my baby, obviously, not saying anything bad about anyone else's choices).

That was the end of the formula experiment.

Three months on I feel so good about having stuck with bfing. I put on another thread that I get such a kick out of thinking that since his conception I have been totally responsible for what he has eaten.

On the introducing a cup thing, ds has taken really happily to water from a cup over the last week or so. I was really surprised.

I express at lunchtime...get abotu 5-6 oz...
Then I express on an evening and as soon as I get in from work.
I also express during most feeds on my days off too.
I leave him 11oz of milk during the day.
Perhaps I am just a little crazy!

Ds (13m) has always had b/milk

I found 16 weeks hard too, it already felt like forever but still ages away until any sort of mush would be introduced. In the event, ds didn't want anything else until 7 months. It's all much easier now - he has 2/3 feeds a day depending on whether I am at work or not.

As for immunity, apart from a couple of sniffles, he has never been ill. Don't know if the two are linked but I'm not about to test out anything else!

Hi Miaou - glad that you've had loads of good advice on this thread - it helps just to know there are other people in the same situation, doesn't it?

Hi Hunker - yes that's just it - just knowing that I'm not dealing with it alone is great

Hi Miaou .

DD is only 8 weeks but is a 100% breastfed baby so far. I am hoping to get nearer to 6 months just with breast milk than I did with DS - can someone remind me about that in a few months time .

I wish I'd had MN when DS was younger than six months. My first thread on here (my first post at all - I started a thread - get me!) was about how much EBM to leave for DS when I went back to work that afternoon!

I clearly remember feeding him at about 3am when he was three months old, thinking "Oh, God, when will he finish and go back to sleep?!" And then it suddenly struck me that he was already three months old, I'd fed for weeks longer than I had thought I'd be able to and that soon he'd be a toddler and not want to lie all comfy-sleepy in my arms. And look - it's true! He's 19mo now, it's gone in a flash, and the only reason I'm not sobbing my heart out thinking about my tiny nuzzly baby is because I'm pg again!

We can spur each other on, PC!

I dont think I dare search for my posts when ds2 was littlw......march and april 2005!

I'm not the kind given to regrets I have to say, but I do wonder if I would have managed b/f better (particularly with dd2) if I had had the mn support that I have now. Not that it was around, then

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Miaou, are you eating and drinking enough? Found when i was breastfeeting that i really had to up my fluid intake and keep biscuits close by.

LOL at "Boob Club"!!

boob club!!
rofl

still bf at 7 mo. back at work full time since dd was 19 wks. leaving 15 oz of ebm per day at nursery. pumping about 8oz per day at work plus once or twice at night. dd still has only a passing interest in food.

Katemum, I am good at eating - have to remind myself to drink plenty though. I have taken to having a glass of water before I go to bed at night to help me with the night feeds. Dh feeds me well (he is a school cook and brings me my tea home at night!!!)

DD is 8 months old and breastfed. So much easier than it was with DS (bottlefed). I'll carry on BF as long as DD wants. Within reason.

Hi, Miaou, ds is nearly 15 months and (obviously eats food too!) addicted to the boob. Feeds so much at night atm (think because he's teething and not eating his usual amount of solids). He's pretty much in bed with us from about 2am till we all get up and I am soooo dehydrated in the morning due to his guzzling. Still, it's all I wished for after me and dd had probs bfing so can't complain! Anyway, you're not alone! And you're doing a great job Dinny

As well as the benefits to babies, lets not forget that it is possible to eat absolutely loads of food and not put on weight whilst breast-feeding. That might sound smug if it's not the general rule. Sorry if it does. I'm coming up to 6 months 100% bf with my second. Dreading pureeing vegetables again. Even more tedious than dusting.

dd3 still breastfed. she has odd bottles of formula but very rarely. is now 9months old, and think i can count the number of bottles she has had on one hand lol.

she loves breastmilk, she practically dives into my top in the morning, hungry little baby.

Hi Miaou! Ds3 is almost 11 months, but 9 months corrected, he was 8 weeks prem. I have 2 older boys and bf them for 12 months
Ds3 is still bf, hates formula but loves solids. I leave him 170ml of EBM during the day. I leave formula as well "just in case" but he never drinks it. Have lately been putting tiny amounts of Nanny formula in his EBM because am beginning to worry that one day I won't have enough EBM and he will revert to drinking nothing at all during the day.(took a long time to get him to take bottles. I believe Medela do a special attachment for small boobies by the way!

Hello! Dd is nine months - similar to Misdee's dd (only with a lot less hair )
Still feeding. Fed up with night feeds but so happy not to have to bother with bottles.

Aw misdee, that sounds lovely!