why dont younger mums breas feed

[codswallop]

on the whole?
18 year ikd nighbour has just had a baby !) musch to her parents horror.. and isnt even trying to b feeed.
why is this?

codswallop-please don't be offended by me asking this (only joined 2nite and don't want to make ememies already ) but why do you think it is all to do with class?

Joolstoo - thanks you are v. kind. The thing is my children are 5 and 7 now so it isn't really anything to do with me but I just cannot believe these things are being said.
Basically it is being said that uneducated, working class mums who don't strap there kids in when driving don't breastfeed. WTF???

if you had read my posts you will know that I struggled enorkously with bf and in fact didnt with number 2 at all ( well 2days)
But IME more middel class mums bf than working class mums.

ansd bloissom hill you are making huge jumps of conclusions
I never said anyhting about strapping kids in
for gods sake you lot take a chill pill

What survey have you done then codswallop?

anyone know of any statistics for this? also what's your definition of younger mother codswallop?

errr - did I say you did?????????

I have to agree with codswallop, i think it is partly down to class and education. Well mainly education, and it's a huge generalization but a lot of the very young mums are poor and uneducated. Or maybe it's just that people who are too lazy or stupid to use contraception think that bottle feeding is the easy way.

that would a complete reverse on history though wouldn't it - I mean all the poor women used to wet nurse for the toffs

"The vast majority of American babies are raised on mostly infant formula, despite the fact that virtually all health and nutrition authorities agree that breastfeeding is the preferred method of feeding and nurturing babies. And low-income babies, who need the immunological, psychological and economic benefits the most, are least likely to be breastfed"

I woudl say young mother in this instance are under say.... 20

coddy - bh is referring to another poster - re the car safety comment.

I really dont want to have a fight about htis
I cried durign my bf experiences but stuck it you
I dont want a medal I am just tryoing to say I knwo how hard i tis
you try feeding when you haev trhush in your bloody sore horrible boobs so you ccried eerytime you had a latch on

Its not easy!

oh sorry

Avoiding all the nastiness, but...

I was just 18 when I had ds. He was born with cleft lip and palate and couldn't b/f properly, but I expressed and he was fed exclusively on ebm for 10months. This was despite very little support overall, and actual encouragement to stop when he was not gaining weight.

Dd arrived when I was 20 and I fed her for 16 months.

I was aware that very few of the younger mums I knew did b/f, but not very many of the older mums did either.

I know coddy - thats why I didn't bother - oh what a bad person I am (not!)

god poor you that must have been really hard

but is bottle feeding always that easy? DS was a terrible feeder, sicky, colicky baby. For first four or five months DS was on anywhere between 5 and 8 bottles a day, usually taking around an hour (at least) each time. If I was very lucky, and he was starving, he would take a bottle in 25 minutes. This was not a common occurrence

and I tried to bf for 2 weeks, but DS had problems with jaundice, resulting in a brief hospitalisation as DS was jaundiced/dehydrated for at 16 days old. not surprisingly, I lost all confidence in bfing at that point.

Friend H, bfing, had a baby who had a 5 minute bf every 3 hours. Now who had the easier time?

please can we have more respect for the hard work that all mums do, whether they are 16 or 46, and however they choose to feed their baby.

I do feel really good that i di though I must say
and do feel guilty for ds2

altho he seems to be ok, though his speech develpment wasnt as fast aas the others

anyweay it sems impossible to haev anormal converation about his so I opt out

Mummytosteven - thank you, you summed up exactly how I feel Infact I often think you think like me xxx

please don't go cod - we all have our own opions and have to respect everyones views good or bad

no its fine! dont want to do a " ia m leaving alls ask me to stay"!!!
just ffeel we have exhausted this topic ans it cant be looked at theoretically.

god no i'm not begging you to stay ya can buggar off for all i care - just don't want this toptic to end bad -as i feel today there's been some valid points made good and bad by everyone....

Surely its fairly obvious that someone who has had the good fortune to be educated and use their brain, will understand that their tits are not the only way to demonstate their femininity/sexuality.?In other words that they are their for a very good reason-to feed babies, not just to get men going.

It amazes me that all you non breastfeeders feel the need to justify your decision. If you are so convinced about the rightness of your choice why are you banging on about it?

If you bothered to spend as much time researching the detrimental effects of formula as you did chatting away here, you would soon change your minds.

BTW I hated the idea of babies mauling my tits and suffered terribly with thrush, sore nipples, colic the works, but I breastfed because I know that this is the SINGLe most important thing you can do for your kid.

If you couldn't be arsed to do it, then admit it, but dont try and kid yourselves and everyone else that there is no real difference between breast and bottle because there IS, however youngoldposhcommonthick or smart you are.