how realistic do you think it is to ex bf till 6 months

[robinredbreast]

dd is 14 weeks and has been ex bf so far.....

suppose my ideal dream is to keep that going till 6 months tbh
but im finding it quite demanding and am considering giving 1 bottle a day for a bit of a rest after dd has her last jabs in 2 weeks

just wondered on all of your views as to your views on ex bf to 6 months

I fed all four of them and I had loads to do every day. I found with the first it took a long time and I did lots of sitting down just feeding, but by numbers two three and four the whole thing was much quicker, I assume because my production was more efficient on subsequent babies.

I accept some people might find it hard but I think that it gets easier if you stick with it and only a very small percentage genuinely can't feed their babies. I know this upsets people but I'm being honest.

I fed mine exclusively up to and beyond six months and I had plenty more to do as you can imagine with four kids. The feeding isn't the hard bit IMO. Laundry, washing up, cleaning etc -- that's hard.

I did it with my two with no problems at all, they were both pretty big and loved their milk, but I loved feeding them (mostly). Why would a bottle make for less work? sounds crazy to me.

If you are breastfeeding with no issues by the time the baby is 12 weeks, then the mother can exclusive breastfeed until 6 months. Assuming they want to and they get support and understand that babies have growth spurts from time to time.

We are still breastfeeding at 13 months and made it to 6 months exclusively, despite a hospital emergency admission when I was told to stop feeding my 4 month old baby(crap advice, so I ignored it) and a stupid HV who told me I HAD to wean at 4 months (whom I also ignored)

nightynight, try telling my 8 month old about jarred food- she hates it and will tightly close her lips, turn up her nose and face at anything off a spoon. she LOVES to feed herself though. jars are definitely easy if she'd have them (dd1 liked the jars, dd2 doesnt).

Rainbow - why don't you just give her what the rest of the family are eating if she likes to feed herself? I did this from day one with DD2 and it's sooooo easy.

I was referring to comments and link on this thread not intending to spread misinformation just pointing out something I found informative in making my decision.

link wrong hang on

just one bottle article