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

Sorry, anchovies - it sounded as if you were generalising out from your personal experience, and I felt it was important to counter this. People may have thought your personal opinion was something based on fact, and it wasn't. I note you were careful to use the first person - sorry.

tiktok!

are you a mw

nailpolish!

No - a breastfeeding counsellor with NCT.

what if.........those of us using 'anecdotal evidence' had children that had been involved in this research - if our children were those that helped make up the "not 100% of cases"............would it be different then - or is it just because our children weren't involved in the research??

are you in scotland?

No. England.

Have to go out now....back later, prob

och it doesnt matter then. thanks anyway tiktok

ok no worries tiktok, just out of interest how much is it ok to drink and not "pump and dump" afterwards?!

too slow!

But if anyone else knows??

Breastfeedings much better cause you can prop babe up with bottle on some cushions and go and have a can of lager and a fag.

Should preview - bottlefeedings much better!

lol northerner

I've never expressed even though I fed three of mine for over a year each, Nailpolish! Never used breastpads either as I only once leaked, overnight. I've been told I must have very well-toned nipples.

well done (i mean that in a nice way) suedonim

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Oh, get over yourself, HM....I would not look at the Discovery Health site, or the NHS ones, for that matter, for up to date reliable info on breastfeeding. I've just looked at the DH one - pretty crappy and full of inaccuracies. The NHS websites have bf info all over the place, and some of it is useless.

The fact - FACT - is you do not need to eat well to produce quality milk, or to produce enough quantity. I did not say you need to have extra calories - I said you don't need to have the 'right' calories. You actually need very few extra calories, and if you don't get 'em, your milk will still not suffer. If you are on a very limited diet, and have had years of chronic under-nutrition in the past, as in some developing countries, then the added impact of bf may well affect your own nutritional status, this is true. But this is not gonna happen in the UK.

If you want to look at a good overview of this, then read the breastfeeding and diet essay here

But don't mind me.

Carry on believing what you want to believe.

I am usually pretty good tempered on these boards, and my teensy little foray into sarcasm was not meant to ruffle your feathers too much, but honestly....enough's enough.

shows what a bind new mums are in tho, who don't have access to something like MN if the NHS website contains inaccurate info about bfing!

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Glad I was able to help you, YG

Tiktok did you see my question earlier re alcohol and breastfeeding? Just wondering how much is too much, im talking about a proper night out not an odd glass of wine! Also do you not ever think it's worth pumping and dumping?

Tik Tok, perhaps you could pass a word of advice to the breasfeeding counsellor I had the misfortune to come accross. She gave us a fab session on the benfits etc etc and told us all how she would be there for us if needed. Then after three days of CONSTANT feeding I rang in despair. The response? "...thats what breastfeeding is like. Get used to it." Admittedly it was Boxing Day and I'm sure she really didn't want a tearful new mum on the phone, but still!! I'm sure they are not all like that and it was my misfortune but suffice it to say I never bothered her again and I did in fact just get on with it. Oh and I did tell myself not to get drawn into this one!! I'm off for my wine.

Just one question, not intended to be nasty or inflammatory or nothing... IME, post pregnancy I have been desperate to loose all the piles I have put on. Obviously the best way to do this is by eating good, quality food, that it has been stated as a nessecity when breastfeeding on this thread. And by the by, it is this sort of food we should usually be eating anyhow... we are lucky it is available to us (says she who ate two doughnuts earlier!)

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