I've stopped bf, is this why my dd2 has a stinking cold/cough (guilty emoticon)

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my dd2 is 10 and 1/2 months and I have gradually stopped feeding over the last month or so. Quite baby led really, didn't make a concious decision either way she just seemed to lose interest. She is now having formula and food. My dd1 (50 brought hone a stinking cold/cough and now dd2 has it. Am I just reacting guiltily because I feel I should have made more effort to carry on feeding or is it really true that she may not have got it had I carried on feeding???

dont worry
my ds2 was exclusivel breast fed til 6 months....then solids and still fully breast fed

he has had croup, bronchiolitus, may have asthma and has eczema

I just worry what he may have been like had I not been breast feeding

Your dd2 has it because your dh had it. Nothing you could have done, blame him, not yourself!

don't beat yourself up! dd1 (2.5) contracted an AWFUL cold from inconsiderate FIL that's now gone into a raging chest infection. i'm terrified bf'd dd2 will get it, but at the end of the day, HE is to blame for willfully exposing them to it.

Don't be daft, it's not your fault! The evidence for breastfeeding protecting babies against infection is based on large populations, not individual babies. And it doens't mean no breastfed babies ever get a cold. It means breastfed babies get fewer infections (and fewer breastfed babies develop allergies etc. etc.). And it doesn't mean they are only protected during breastfeeding, they are protected their whole lives (lower rates of obesity in adults who were breastfed etc. etc.).

There is enough stuff to feel guilty about as a mother without adding to it unecessarily!

thanks everyone, I feel lots better now

DD is still bf at 2 years and gets loads of viral infections and colds.