Any adults on here been formula fed?

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Did you have any health implications at all whilst growing up up until now?

I was formular fed. I was a healthy child and a healthy adult.
No major health issues.

At an individual level you really can’t corollate ff with health problems. You’d have to do massive scale population studies because of the variables.

FF along with all my siblings (70s - 80s born kids). Mid 30s now and in good health. Only issue as a child was tonsillitis which my exclusively BF DC now gets, so seems hereditary rather than to do with feeding.

I was the only one of my siblings that was breast fed (till age 3 apparently) and I’m the only one with allergies and health problems!
Obviously completely unrelated to how I was fed but just shows you can make anecdotal evidence out of anything.

Me! No health issues!

My DD, now 51, was formula fed. She's as fit as a fiddle. She's been in work since finishing uni and has had three days off sick. One when she had a ganglia removed from her foot, and two days when she had flu.

I smoked and drank, in moderation, through our her pregnancy. No one told me not to in 69/70.

I reckon the world should be thanking me. Imagine if I'd not had a drink, not smoked and breast fee her? She's v bright now, she'd be vying for world leader if I'd done all those things. - light hearted comment, not to be taken seriously.

And I certainly would not advise any one to do what I did. I ( she) was just lucky

I was fully formula fed, I’m 35. Not to blow my own trumpet or anything, but I’m fit as a fiddle

My husband was.
Anecdotally, he always gets much sicker than me. We both had the flu years ago. He had it for longer and became delirious and had to go to hospital.
He’s had Covid twice. I didn’t get any symptoms either time despite sharing a bed with him.

I was ff.

Healthy, but I have serious weight issues. Can’t stand being hungry and having to wait for food, and always have to finish everything.

I have often muses whether it’s anything to do with the very strict 4- hourly schedule, as in put me at the bottom of the garden to scream if it wasn’t “time” for a feed, and water only at night, then being made to take the whole bottle.

Ff or bf, i definitely think baby led is better.

FF in 70s. Mother 41 at birth.

In fact I was allergic to the formula and was given boiled cows milk.

Nothing bad as a result.

I was EBF for six months and have horrendous IBS and gut issues, as do my entire close family (3 siblings and parents,
all BF). Our immune systems are average. We have no allergies.

In my experience, genetic predisposition trumps any environmental impact on future health as a result of infant feeding method.

In those already genetically predisposed to develop certain conditions, FF’ing instead of BF’ing MAY, but only may, increase the risk of poor health outcomes by removal of the protective effect of BF’ing (in my non-expert opinion).

Don’t get hung up on it - I mix fed then exclusively FF both of mine due to very low milk supply (IGT). I had to, absolutely no regrets.

out of 5 I was the only one bottle fed (dm was ill after my birth) and I have a host of severe allergies.
an ex boyfriends was bf but given oats from 2 weeks old as was always hungry. he has a range of gut issues/ibd.

FF here, early 70s. Apparently the bottles were made up and left out on a table in the hospital ward for feeding your newborn. No health issues.

I was bottle fed and developed excema in infancy and asthma in childhood, both can be avoided by avoiding feeding dairy to babies. I was given goats milk once the excema became a problem. Excema completely cleared up by the time I was a teenager, but I'm still mildly asthmatic from time to time. I was born in the fifties just for context

Only health issue I have is hay fever and allergic to cat hair.
I breastfed both my dc and both have the same allergies.

Big family history of formula/cows milk feeding. Big family history of autoimmune diseases. Correlation is not necessarily causation however.

I was breast fed and have asthma, eczema, hayfever, pmle and am very overweight.

Dp was formula fed and has perfect skin, a rock solid immune system, is generally as healthy as a horse and the only time he's ever been in hospital is once when he broke his arm as a child, once when he came with me when I had Ds and once when Ds had a minor op.

We're both pretty clever. His sister was also formula fed, is fit as a fiddle and has a PhD in chemistry.

DSis and I were FF, we both have asthma. DBro was BF and has no asthma.

All this is anecdata rather than proper evidence, but studies have repeatedly shown fewer illnesses and allergies in BF children.

FF from three months. Premature with some associated issues in early infancy, not linked to FF. Eczema as a baby and toddler.
Two siblings fed the same, one with mild asthma.

FF, have had eczema on and off since I was about 13. Terrible skin. Otherwise in decent shape for my post-menopausal age.

BF all my DC exclusively to 5 months. One has had eczema on and off, but not the skin issues I have had.

I was, I have no major health issues (physically anyway) other that folic acid anaemia (a recent development nothing to do with how I was fed) and actually me eldest exclusively formula fed daughter was ill far less often than her exclusively breastfed sister who is still feeding at 2 years old. But again I put that down to the fact she has an older sister at school bringing home germs rather than how she is fed.

50 now, FF from birth, very small baby, weaned at 3 months on rusks, barely ate until I was about 4, never ill as a child or an adult, except one episode of flu when I was 9. Still very rarely ill as an adult, although I need to change my ways, as am obese and drink far too much !

Dp was formula fed and, according to his mum, being fed jarred food even before he left hospital.

Unsurprisingly he has awful gut and skin issues

Apologies for all the spelling and grammar mistakes there I'm struggling with typing at the moment

Me, quite a lot of health issues and a dreadful relationship with my mother, but not in the slightest bit convinced that's because I was FF. More that I was FF because my mum didn't really want me near her...