Do you think it's possible to tell a breast fed baby/adult?

[McDreamyGonagall]

Spoke to someone today who attended a lecture from a paediatrician who claimed to be able to look at an adult and decide wether they were bf or ff. Then illustrated this by going along the front row and got everyone correct!

I'm finding this hard to believe!!!!

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BREASTFED

how am i lucky? i just have a mind of my own, no matter to me what others 'advised'

And as for this guy!

harpsi fio has answered you about 3 times now

harpsi i have told you three times now I dont think it made a difference in my case abnout what 'support' (ie. zero) i got off mine opr dh's family. that said, my Mil is draconian about bf and very irritating with it#

mind you she is the same about giving birth cos she was a clever girl and did it so easily

I wasn't at the lecture so just going by what was said today (which I was a bit dismissive of) but basically it was all about height weight in relation to you parents and reaching your full potential.

In short complete and utter bollocks - IMhumbleO

What a strange way to evaluate an adult you meet, though?

my outside influence was my elder sister
sh fed wiht no probs
i fed wiht lods
so alhtough she was kind she was no use( almost like fios gran)

my sister was breastfed and was 4ft 11

i think the guy int he OP need to MOVE ON [

why do you have inverted nipples cod?

a pump would help

Sorry.

I guess it's because it just didn't occur to me not to start breastfeeding, despite myself and my siblings being predominantly formula fed. But then we can't know our unconscious motivation can we? By definition...

It was a lecture about breastfeeding in his defence (I don't even know the guys name)

there are 4 kids in my family.
3 were breastfed for 2 or more years. (1 for 6 weeks)
2 have had braces (one jaw surgery for re-alignment) but we all have slight overbites
1 has asthma
all are 5'8" +
all are slimmish (though 3 of us have to work at it)
and only 1 went to and finished post secondary schooling.

feel free to disagree with me.
imo just about everyone is influenced by their parenting. so it is useful for the person concerned to think about it.
perhaps you are the one person in the world who isn't

I agree with you harpsi- I am greatly influenced by the way i was parented even if it's that i want to do it differently.

dont be sarky

im off, i dont like arguing

its a good job I wasnt influenced by parenting as I might be abusing my children by now, shagging around and beating my husband

But Fio you were - because you don't do that! I think that is what Harpsi is trying to say. We don't have to copy our parents to be influenced by them - quite the opposite for alot of my parenting choices!

you were influenced though Fio- to do things differently as you know that what happened to you is wrong- iyswim

naily god how unbelievably rude and self centred
I don't care one way or another how you fed your children.I haven't given it a second's thought.
fio are you saying it is rubbish to say that the type of support a woman receives dones't matter because you didn't get any support? I couldn't quite believe that's what you were saying

I have never looked at 'influence' at being like that before

Lots of mum's I know ff becasue their mothers did and that is all they know about.

Personally I was older than a lot of mum's round here and my mum actually supported me (although she had real guilt issues that she hadn't bf us but then again she smoked in pg and when we were little as well and i bet knowing what she knows now se feels guilty as hell about that)

Everything i do differently to my parents is taken as a personal critisicm by my mother- it's not meant that way but that's how she sees it. I can imagine if I was 15 years younger how a lot of these younger mums feel

We are influenced. We make a decision to do similar, or complete opposite or somewhere in between..