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Infant feeding

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Who out there is an avid 100% breast feeder?

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browniegirl · 14/04/2006 03:53

I am breast feeding my 2nd baby and fed my first untill she was 2 it got off to a very rocky start however I persevered and I am so glad that I did it was wonderful. My son is 10 months and is an absolute darling to feed no problems at all. I don't mind some of the restrictions of breast feeding like,not be able to leave him over night (unless I am at work then i have no choice) in fact that makes it more special because only I can do it nobody else is there anyone else who feels the same because all I seem to hear are the negative aspects of feeding and not the positves!

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suzi2 · 15/04/2006 20:44

I am. DS is 8 months. I hated it for the first 2 or 3months but now I love it. I don't think he's as into it as I am as he only feeds for a very distracted 3 mins several times a day and then pulls off and grumps because he wants to play!

I love the convenience and the price more than anything else and much like hunker, I love that his chunky monkey thighs were all my doing.

popsycalindisguise · 15/04/2006 20:48

Add me on the list :)
ds2 is 13 months now and still feeding like a trouper! Can't see any signs of him losing interest for a while yet. Though his ridiculous sleep pattern annoys me. But maybe he would be like that however he was fed?

I love it now he can communicate of sorts and has learned some bay signing..I ask 'is that nice?' and he frantically signs yes!

popsycalindisguise · 15/04/2006 20:51

baby signing even!!

hunkermunker · 15/04/2006 21:07

Oh, Popsy, that's reminded me - when DS1 learnt the sign for milk, he'd sometimes sign it to me as a kind of "hello", as well as when he actually wanted feeding - rofl! Obviously what I reminded him of...!

Feel the same about getting to 6 months on bmilk, SK - did it with DS1 and will do it again with DS2. Don't even really see it as "getting to" or "making it" - it's just what I do. Actually, same with bfeeding, really.

Pooka, yes, ikwym about the frantic stare then relaxing - so sweet! Love the frantic gulping too!

Lact8 (love your name!) - cwtch is such a good word to describe it - it's one of the only Welsh words I know and it fits beautifully.

popsycalindisguise · 15/04/2006 21:12

hunker - ds2 does exactly that too!!! his sign for 'yes' is developing into a sign for 'hello mummy get your boobs out' - he looks like a little bird trying to fly!! He has also got his own self - taught 'other side now please' sign. v amusing!

lact8 · 15/04/2006 21:25

My Ds1 didn't learn any baby signing, but circumstances meant I had to work fulltime when he was 14 mths and leave him for 12 hrs a day But every evening he'd say "num,nums" and we'd settle down for a lovely feed. It really helped my guilt at leaving him beacuse it was something no-one else could do for him

beartime · 15/04/2006 21:43

I'm really 100% ATM as 5.5 months and no solids, or formula, or even ebm - he's had it all straight from the spout! I kinda like it too cos if I did the ebm thing more people might persuade me to leave ds whereas I don't really want to leave him! Not that I'm against ebm - just couldn't be bothered

pupuce · 15/04/2006 21:56

me too.... loved it and miss it

harpsichordcarrier · 15/04/2006 22:06

mememe
I am bf a five month old (exclusively) and a nearly three year old
and I bloody love it

beartime · 15/04/2006 22:25

I want to be you - so long as I'm not one of those whose period doesn't come back till they stop bfing

misdee · 15/04/2006 22:31

can i be added to the list? dd3 amount on firmula can be cunted on one hand! she is 13months old and still breastfed. I have more people asking me now when i am going to give up, but i cant get her to get off for love nor money. she wont even take EBM from a cup, its mummy or nothing. She doesnt mind if i am not about and she cant have her milk, but as soon as i am back she is straight at me for milk.

hunkermunker · 15/04/2006 22:33

Misdee...I take it you meant counted?!

misdee · 15/04/2006 22:39

sorry am on peters laptop and the keys are all funny

Moondog · 15/04/2006 22:47

Can I pop in?
Not all plain sailing for me (thrush both times) but b/fed both children,one for 21/2 years,the other for 11 months.Then he self weaned!
How bloody selfish was that?!

It's the thing I'm most proud of in the whole world (after giving birth.)

chipmonkey · 15/04/2006 23:15

Can I join the club. Am still bfing ds3 16 months on and bf him exclusively till 6 months. Only express in work one day a week now because its a 12 hour day, otherwise he gets some cows milk. Can't imagine him self-weaning, he's not the type. MIL is making umcomfortable noises about not feeding him till he's a "big boy" since that C4 programme. My own Mum bf my brother till he was 3 so she's fine about it.

GarfieldsGirl · 16/04/2006 08:53

I love bf'ing. Its a closeness that I don't think you can get any other way. ds1 fed for 10ish months then self weaned, but came back to me a few months later when we stayed at ILs for comfort. He wouldn't eat ANYTHING else the whole time we were there, but completely off bmilk by 14 months. ds2 is 5 mths, slurping away right now! Feeling your baby so close is the most amazing feeling you can get. I've had a few people trying to get me to stop this time round due to other very difficult circumstances, but I've refused as I know I'd hate it and would definately become depressed and withdrawn etc if I couldn't feed him.

Agree Brownie about others comments that are very negative, only friday i received 'pornographic' comments which obviously made me VERY

lact8 · 16/04/2006 09:35

This is my favourite thread on here at the moment! No, 'we're so superior' attitudes at all just lovely to read other mum's perspectives on bfeeding, makes me go all mushy inside

misdee · 16/04/2006 10:09

i am finding breastfeeding so easy this time round. i did think about giving up at 6months as with peter in hospital i was finding thing tough but i couldnt face the extra hassles of bottles and formula. so i have left it to dd3 to give up. she is relly contented. she had a big feed at 6am and has left me alone since. the thing that mkes me laugh tho is that she is currently feeding baby annabel doll with a bottle she must be copying the older 2 lol.

lockets · 16/04/2006 10:27

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georginarf · 16/04/2006 10:35

I loved breastfeeding DD (now 16 months) and was very upset when she adamantly refused to do it anymore at 10 months. I probably could have persevered but after 2 weeks I decided she knew her own mind...! Will be exclusively breastfeeding any future babies too. It wasn't at all easy to establish feeding but I'm very glad I stuck at it. She never would take a bottle anyway, straight onto cups.

BonyM · 16/04/2006 11:28

Me.

B/fed dd1 until she was 9mths - would have carried on longer but had gone back to work and found expressing really difficult so it just tailed off.

DD2 is 13mths and I am still feeding her - plan to carry on as long as she wants to (within reason - don't want to be breastfeeding a school-age child).

Didn't find it particularly easy at first with either child but am so bloody-minded that there was no way I was going to give up and I was lucky that both times I had great midwives who gave me lots of help withh positioning etc.

BonyM · 16/04/2006 11:32

Oh -just read popsy and hunker's posts about signing. Despite having been signing with dd2 since she was 6mths, she still only has one sign - milk! She uses it not just for milk but also as a general greeting and for anything else that she wants! .

NotAnOtter · 16/04/2006 11:56

Hve breast fed all five of mine for varying times 6 months,three months , a year and ten months ( self- weaned!) now two months in to number five. I am proud of myself and think it is right but i dont love it... best for babies though!

lockets · 16/04/2006 12:06

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NotAnOtter · 16/04/2006 12:09

Lockets - i always feel a bit guilty but there you have it. Its just that i would ( honestly!) rather give a bottle and watch it all go down etc and be sure what they have had ..i always think i cant even see his face hidden behind the boob ..wrong thread for this sort of talk !!!

I DO feed though and last two for nearly a year each!!!

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