6 months! Thanks Tiktok and all!

[squizita]

DD is 6 months thus week. Thanks to Tiktok and everyone on here who gave advice to a pfb breastfeeding mum! It's such a relief and joy that she's had that "only breast milk before 6 months" recommendation.

She grabbed and chomped some cooked broccoli yesterday.
Time to hit the veg aisle. She'll be having other things as well as mummy milk soon.
Bittersweet. .. She's growing up!

oh well done! I haven't been as strict re BM/FF, but this board and tiktok especially have been so helpful with getting though those tricky BFing patches. (DS nows feeds again with nary a minute of Edelweiss! Yay).

I'm such a pfb mum, I'm trying to be more relaxed! Hoping solids will let me do that I will not be getting hung up on weights, measures and organic fancy/posh food ... carrots, cheese, toast and yoghurt stuff here we come as I want her to find it "fun"!

:) :)

Fabulous achievement !

The advice on this board helped me massively with BF esp with DS tongue tie.

DS is 7 months & so far just purrees - I'm terrified of BLW but it's just another hurdle in this parenting lark isn't it?!

How exciting! And well done!

I was told to give DD formula top ups around 3w old and did, just a few ml a day with a syringe. Nothing except bm since but it does mean the GP surgery count her as "partially bf" which feels like a slap in the face after all the work I put in.

So well done for achieving it - I know what it means to say that!

SAS dd is very into finger foods and pushes it somewhat She grabbed puree yesterday and shovelled it in!

Revolting ignore them. Sounds like you did way more than many of us who get lucky with a our boobs!

squiz that is amazing, you've done a great job I can't believe your DD is already 6 months! I remember when she was born on the posifrickintivity thread. I'm still pregnant, damnit!

Revolting that is very unnecessarily cruel of the GP surgery I can fully imagine how that feels like a slap in the face! DS had formula in the first two weeks when he was in SCBU, as I couldn't initially pump enough for all his feeds, but once he was discharged, he was bf all the way. I would have felt just like you if someone had decreed he was "partially bf" as a result!

Well done squizita

I had dd just over a month after you and you've helped me keep going (I've namechanged recently)

Revolting your gp needs to know that the technical term for your experience is predominantly breastfed. Is that better?

Congrats!

Well done squiz !!! Woo hoo !!

Weaning IS fun. Go crazy, let her try everything. I loved it with DD1 and DD2 is nearly 6 months old and I can't wait to do it again.

Weaning poos are less fun

Ha, revlting I had a similar experience at DS' three month Plunket check (equivalent of HV I think in the U.K?)
Her: "And he's exclusively breastfed?"
Me: "Oh predominately, so 6 - 7 BFs a day, but he gets one formula bottle at bedtime with his dad"
Her: "Riiiight. Abd how many mls? How often?"

Me, loudly: "Where's that iNfo going, the bad mother's database, HAHAHAHAHAHA"

Ha, revlting I had a similar experience at DS' three month Plunket check (equivalent of HV I think in the U.K?)
Her: "And he's exclusively breastfed?"
Me: "Oh predominately, so 6 - 7 BFs a day, but he gets one formula bottle at bedtime with his dad"
Her: "Riiiight. Abd how many mls? How often?"

Me, loudly: "Where's that iNfo going, the bad mother's database, HAHAHAHAHAHA"

I refuse to be guilt tripped over how my extremely well-cared for son is nourished!

Anyway sorry to derail your thread squiz EBFing for 6 months IS a great achievement! I just think the way BFing is promoted (not just in the NHS, obv, as I'm not in the UK!) is a bit counter-productive.

Exclusively breastfeeding at 6 months is very rare in the uk - 1% of the population I think the Infant Feeding Survey said. So I find it baffling that HCPs are judging the 99%!

Of course, from 6 months onwards you start to get all the pressure to stop breastfeeding from all and sundry. You've done the hard graft and this is the easy bit so it's very annoying.

Though I'm not, as one alpha mum friend did, gonna use breast milk even in cooking! Cows or the 3 ready made mini bottles of cow and gate I kept in the cupboard in case I was run over by a stampeding elephant for cooking.

Well done squizita and dd!

Ds is also 6 months (I remember you from the pregnany forum, we were both overdue)? and still bf ALL the time but I did start him on solids 2 weeks ago. I love bf but ds never took a bottle for me so I'm so relieved to see him eat solids and it means I can leave him for 3 hours or so and he won't starve He is inhaling the food, can't get enough

Delighted all went so well for you.

Thanks! :)

Yeah foodie it will be nice to not worry about frozen milk etc if I need to leave her with dh for a few hours!