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!!!!

Meandmyflyingmachine, I do not think that 'make a decision' is 'way' too strong.
In some ways, the way we were parented, affects our parenting, in a subconscious way. And in other areas, or for other people, the way they were parented, affects their parenting, in a conscious decision making way. For example, when you read the smacking threads, people say, I was smaked / beaten etc and I made a decision that I would never do that to my child.
That is what I meant.

Height wise, I'm 5 foot 9 and was FF, brother is 6 foot 1. Don't think we did too badly there.

DH and brothers were all BF. All very tall, however 1 is fat and the rest are very slim. This stuff is all down to genetics. I am VERY sceptical that BF has anything to do with it.

O and two of them have asthma and one of them has awful teeth.

oh my jesus god

am pmsl

I am massively pro extended bf but do think that bfding an adult is going a little far.

i imagine that joke has been made quite a lot of times...

"If he could combine this amazing talent with tarot card readings and being able to guess your weight, he'd be a great party guest." Fantastic!

My neighbour is a District Nurse and used to be a midwife. She says that you can always tell a BF baby because of the clarity of their eyes and skin.

My neighbour is a District Nurse and used to be a midwife. She says that you can always tell a BF baby because of the clarity of their eyes and skin.

Does she mean they haven't got blotchy skin or what? I don't get it. Does it apply to olive skinned or dark eyed babies? I think it's what eyes you look at them with and what you decide you're going to see.

cod has made me wet myself on this thread

find myself agreeing with expat (again) what an odd way to evaluate people.

I was bf but wasn't influenced one way or the other by my mother, dd was ff but she chose to bf - albeit only for a couple of months and I didn't try to influence her, just tried to be supportive whatever her decision.

The OP is a steaming pile of poo and even if it were true, so what? What would you do with the knowledge? It's like saying 'hey you're a Libran aren't you? I can tell'

Wow! I wonder if your parents know just how little influence they had on your upbringing NP? [sarky]

Is it really the case that all your parenting knowledge has come from reading books? Nothing that you do that your parents also did? I find myself doing things my own mum did and kicking myself for it

I know one example doesn't prove a thing but my mum is the middle one of 3 daughters. She was BF, the others FF. My mum has always been in excellent health whereas the other two have been plagued by allsorts of nasty health problems and also, they just kind of look unhealthy.

My granny has always put it down to how they were fed as babies.

my brother and I were both ff. He had eczema and recurrent ear infections as a baby, and has mild asthma now. I have no asthma, no allergies, didn't have eczema and was never ill as a baby and am hardly ever ill now. I can't remember the last time I had a cold.

Also - we're both tall (I'm 5 foot 10, he's 6 foot 5) so if being ff really has stunted our growth, god knows how tall we'd be if we were breastfed. Perhaps I could've had a promising career as a basketball player.

IME how you feel about feeding choices can be quite unconscious. I didn't realise how strongly influenced I'd been by Mum's days in the NCT. It was only when I trained as a bf'g peer supporter and was asked what I thought of formula that I uncovered a 9 year old's zealous hatred of all things Nestle. Guess that's why I never had a box in the house 'just in case' despite all the nonsense from MIL about how DH was too hungry a baby to bf. (FWIW I now accept that formula is the right answer for some people in some situations and try to keep my inner-zealot locked down).