Why I love bottlefeeding............

[Gwenick]

with all of these debates about why people 'love' breastfeeding, why it's best and why people 'don't' want to Bf I reckon it's time for a "Why I love bottlefeeding" thread.

Before anyone starts I've had one of each - a BF for 14 months and a bottlefed from birth (BF was my first baby)

1. I can continue my 'life' - ie I can keep doing my director of music job without worrying about trying to express and (in the case of DS1) worrying about whether DS take milk from the bottle

2. DH can feed him

3. He's a happy healthy baby and I'm a healthy (not always so happy at the moment but that's different story) mummy

4. If I leave him with someone and forget to leave enough milk all they have to do is go to the shop

I'll do more in a minute - DS2 needs to sleep now

Oh, and yes of course I've had coffee and curries before b/feeding - masses of them, I neck down espresso and am half Indian - er, no nappy events here.

HMof2: you can feel whatever you want, "personally". You can believe whatever you want about having to eat quality food to produce quality breastmilk.

Fact is, it doesn't matter. There's a ton of research on this. But we all know about research, don't we....if you feel "personally" that it's important to eat quality food, then go ahead and use it as a "personal" reason for loving bottle feeding

I ate and drank whatever I wanted to when I bf.

Got jolly fat though!

Love your post WobblyK

FAT!!! Caligula - but I thought BF was supposed to help you lose weight

Says she who also put on weight while BF - but has lost a total of 1 stone since DS2 was born

i put on weight too when bf! and lots of it

learnt my lesson and did not do that with dd2

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Theoretically you're supposed to lose weight, but I suppose that means if you eat a normal balanced diet, as opposed to chocolate eclairs, doughnuts, peanut butter toast, steak diane, etc. etc.

Can't think why it didn't work for me!

I have lost 3 stone bfing, and I was eating sensibly until I started back at uni, no time for food now!

my postnatal group of 8 after DS1 were all bf (except one) 6 of us were VERY jealous of one women - we all stayed the same weight (or put it on) she had the opposite problem and became really skinny - unfortunately for her dangerously skinny and she had to give up BF.

I lost all my pregnancy weight through bf. My friends who bottlefed were stuck on diets & they haven't got back to their pre-preg weight yet.

LOL Caligula!!

Again I think it's just one of those things that's more to do with the individual mother than the feeding method. Don't want to gloat but I was back in my size 10 jeans 2 weeks after giving birth to ds3 I think that had more to do with the fact that I had 2 toddlers under 4 to deal with as well so didn't sit down much!

Forgot to say, bottle fed ds3.

How much weight did you put on GdG?

No idea tbh as I never weighed myself! It was harder to lose the weight after ds1 who I breast fed at first BUT I don't think it's to do with that - I probably put more weight on with him as I was at work sitting down and on maternity leave I just read books and ate (before he was born I mean) and then afterwards I only had one baby to look after. I became a SAHM after that so when I had ds2 and ds3 the situation during pregnancy and after was very different - I was much more active as being at home with toddlers is a much more physical role than the one I had 'at work'.

I think that has more to do with it AND just the nature of the individual - I'm naturally a slim person and don't put weight on incredibly easily anyway. I don't think whether I breast fed or bottle fed really made a difference tbh though I know 'the research' shows otherwise! Maybe it has an influence but perhaps the other influences have more bearing?

have to say a good friend of mine has lost a lot of weight bfing despite eating loads of everything. luck of the draw though, isn't it.

I think so MTS.

I put on shedloads of weight w/dd b/c of swelling from hypertension. 4st. on a slight frame. Didn't bf her. It was all off w/i 3 months. I'm VERY glad DH and the family could feed her, b/c I had horrid PND and didn't feel up to it s/times.

"Why are you so keen to encourage bottle feeding? "

Bean - just realised I hadn't addressed this comment. I'm not 'encouraging' it this thread is entitled "Why I love bottlefeeding"

NOT why bottle feeding is best !

Why argue over breast versus bottle?

We all make choices on how to raise our kiddies, and we don't argue half as much on other issues as we do this!!

I breastfed all of mine (5), but whether I would again I don't know.

Yes...I could go out without having to worry about whether I had enough bottles on me.
Yes...I never had to worry about sterilising and making up bottles
Yes...It helped me return to pre-pregnancy wieght quicker

BUT

They suffer from allergies the worst out of all my friends
Each have been admitted into hospital for gastro bugs more than once

It wasn't nescesarily cheaper either, bearing in mind the cost of bra's, breast pads and food for me. Add the fact that I still bought bottles and sterilising equipment for the times I expressed and I may have actually spent more!!!

We all make choices for our kiddies based on how we feel, and we should all respect each others discisions for those choices.

You know very well we can all use our personal opinions here, HMto2...you don't need my permission.

My personal opinion is that the grass is blue and the sky is green, by the way. I am quite happy thinking that.

The moon's made of cheese, too.

Just my personal opinion.

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tiktok may i ask you a question, are you a mw?

Is that so tiktok? Look what happened when I posted my personal opinion? I got accused of myth making when I said I found expressing difficult.

You can drink and bf. You do not need to express 'like a maniac'