Proud to have breast fed

[Keepdlingwhatyourgutsays]

I will start off by saying I don't care if you bf or ff. I see so many posts where women say they ff but none on bf. they get taken down or people straight away think it's a dig. Honestly what ever you chose to do you do.

However after so many negative and nasty comments when I was breastfeeding I can say I did it. I didn't give in to the people who were nasty I didn't let them bully me into stopping. I was a younger mum not young young but I was young and I was still very insecure about a lot of things and I did not feel supportive.
I do remember once the first time I breastfed on the bus I did that thing where I assumed everyone would be staring and one elder gentlemen was and he just grinned a very kind grin and that kept me going through some of the nasty comments.
If you are breast feeding and getting comments from family or friends please ignore it because looking back they were just insecure (not everyone but the ones I New) or they are just plain nasty. Anyone who makes a nasty comment about that isn't nice nor needed.
But remember wether you breastfeed or bottle it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks. Online people get so angry about it but it really doesn't matter guys

I’m proud I BF, not cause of the whole ‘breast is best’ stuff but because if I ever had a problem a lot of the answers were ‘oh just use formula’.

Baby won’t sleep through- use formula
Cluster feeding is hard- use formula
It’s hot outside- baby needs water

That was hard having to justify my choice, being told I only chose to bf cause I was controlling...

There isn’t enough support and because of that I don’t see why once, just once, I can tell a bunch of strangers that I bf and I’m fucking proud of myself!!!!

Oh piss off molly.

Reported on all the threads I’ve seen you spamming.

I was told that this forum would be good for market research.

Were you really. We’ll find the right board. Stop popping up everywhere with your annoying post. You’re going to get yourself banned.

@MollyAA what your doing is spam - start your own thread don't just post on everyone else's which are completely irrelevant.

Personally speaking bf is a huge personal achievement for me.
I take lots of abuse for having lots of dc (11)but am proud I bf them all.
Some people are proud of other achievements in their lives, I am proud of bf!!
No disrespect to anyone who ff - or to my ex mil's next door neighbour who fed her prem ds Carnation milk for months!! He ended up a strapping lad /man!!
Can you imagine telling your mw that now??!

I literally don't care how I or anyone else fed their baby.

In life there are things I am proud that I have done - this isn't one of them?!

My DH doesn't care either.

I don't know. I've never ever felt a lack of support for BFing my kids. I've never received any unwanted or negative attention. I guess I've been lucky. I actually never noticed if anyone was looking at me feeding.

Me too. I don't feel proud. I just cracked on and did it. It wasn't a celebration. Just something you do. You feed your kids. As Chris Rock would say, "What do you want? A cookie?" Whether you BF or FF, your baby is being loved and looked after. It's not a coming out parade.

I breastfed first baby for 2 years, second baby for 3 years. With the second one I told a lot of people I'd stopped at just before 2 when I hadn't. I was constantly getting asked when I was going to stop and after 1 year was told that there was no nutrition coming from it. Really infuriates me these people, telling me what to do.
I think it is jealousy a lot of it. At the end of the day it's their hang up and after age 18 months I wasn't feeding in the day time at all anyway so they'd never have known, it was only my honesty. So yes very proud that have breastfed twice over and would def do it for a 3rd time

It can be hard for people who are breastfeeding where it’s not the norm amongst their friends and family. You get a lot of pressure and that’s when the ‘if you gave a bottle they’d sleep/not cry/become the perfect baby comments start’. I have a wide circle of friends. One particular group of youngish mums I know are very anti breastfeeding. They virtually bullied one girl into stopping and told me they thought it ‘was disgusting’ (so actually I have had one negative comment but not from strangers in public!). I don’t take offence, they are quite good friends but I would never start slagging off formula in front of them.

O dear I wonder what she wrote

Nice thread OP - I am also proud to be breastfeeding my DS

@killerqueen yes you shout it loud Hun.
I faced that just formula feed answer to all.

Breast fed my first and now breast feeding my second and hell yes I’m proud of it.

It’s bloody hard work for lots of reasons and I’ve come across a lot of people telling me to give formula whenever I hit a hurdle and constantly fighting against that attitude is hard work.

Breast fed my first until he was 2.5 years old which I loved. Breast feeding my second is turning out to be a huge challenge and we’ve had lots of problems but I’m still going at 8 months.

I don’t care how others feed their babies but for me breast feeding has been challenging for many reasons and I’m proud of myself for sticking with it when everyone else was pressuring me to stop.

April wow well done. I have only one but I did once want lots I bet it's a lovely full house. I personally don't think I could give them what they needed but that's me which is why I stuck with one. I'm selfish I want though. Some days I think I want more but I could never cope.

Pom Pom it's awful what people say. Where's the support. Well done though. Hopefully with more celebs long term feeding it will not be an issue but I'm not sure.

It's awful reading the things yourve had to put up with. But well done for sticking it out. I cannot believe the things people say! How do family and friends not know what they are doing. Where's the support

I never got any adverse public reactions for BF, but it was incredibly painful and difficult on the early days but I struggled on and got through that because I believed it was the best thing to do for my health and my DCs - and I’m proud of that. Thousands of women are proud this week that they conquered the London Marathon despite the pain. Millions of other women would never be in a position to achieve that for health reasons but it doesn’t mean that the ones who did achieve it should have to shut up.

@PositivelyPERF I don't think it's nasty of her to post. The other thread has compiled all the negatives of breastfeeding, and honestly would have put me off more than I already was if I had read that beforehand.

I bought a perfect prep before even TTC as I was so determined to FF. I only decided to try breastfeeding for 2 weeks when I was already almost 9 months pregnant with the plan to move onto formula only at 2 weeks old. That thread would have terrified me into not trying at all, nobody deserves that amount of pressure and stress to continue breastfeeding as so many of the posters there experienced.

@eventnotindata worded that better than I could

@gummygodess again worded how I couldn't thank you

Good on you OP - it really is an achievement. My heart goes out to anyone pressured to do something they don't want to do, as well as to mums who wanted to breastfeed but couldn't. But the vast majority of mothers in the UK feed formula, and HCPs are still inclined to advocate topping up with formula for all sorts of issues. In that context, I think managing to breastfeed for any length of time, but particularly past 12 months, is an accomplishment.
I'm bloody proud of myself too for coming this far, after all the obstacles we had to face in the first three months, including an intimidating midwife who predicted me to fail from the start. In the beginning I thought I'd never enjoy breastfeeding, but now I genuinely do.

I love breastfeeding. Really happy I’m able to do it. There were other things that I was not able to do so it’s nice to be able to do this.

I’m not able to mention it in front of other new mums at all tho as so many people have huge hang ups about not being able to do it. The breast is best campaign went too far in that respect. It’s guilt tripped people and now I feel I can’t talk about bf to friends without someone getting upset.

I absolutely hate these threads. I bf dd1 for 9 months and pumped for dd2 for 3 months and I'm prouder of pumping and sticking it out (waking up 2 times during the night while dd2 slept and 4 times during the day )

You're not special. Just fucking annoying.