Of my sample of 3 children, all exclusively breastfed, child 1 rarely gets sick, child 2 catches everything and child 3 picks up lots from child 2.
If we only supported it instead of under staffing our maternity hospital – one bad night and they’re firing the Aptamil at them in Holles Street. They don’t have the capacity to help with latching etc.
I only breastfed my eldest for 6 weeks and she has a weak immune system – asthmatic with every skin condition going, but my second was breastfed for 7 months and is far more healthy with zero underlying issues. Currently 4 months into breastfeeding the third so jury’s out on that still.
To sucessfully breastfeed you need lots of support. Not just with the physical difficulties many people have but if a baby is on your boob for most of the day you need a partner that does everything around the house and care for other kids etc.
Imagine nature is better than formula
I think it’s well established that breastfeeding provides antibodies to babies.
Just to note on the other side, breastfed babies are “were also more likely to fail to gain weight”- If you or your baby is struggling there is absolutely no shame in using formula.
I think everybody can agree that fed is best at the end of the day.
I haven’t read the report, but I wonder if they factored in if the baby was delivered naturally or C-section too.
I’ve heard similar cases of natural birth babies having better /’more antibodies than C-section.
More bullying women into breastfeeding.
For decades and generations babies were formula fed. They all turned out great.
I’ve only experience with one baby so far, but my daughter was sick once in the 2 years we breastfed. She got hand foot and mouth at age 1. But never had a fever or a bad cold (minor snots mostly)..even after starting in childcare at 15 months. stopped breastfeeding at 2 and shes had fevers, bad colds, sore throats, the whole lot week after week. I put it down to stopping breastfeeding. Due baby no2 in just under 6 weeks, hoping to combi feed to take pressure off myself. Found it was actually handier to exclusively feed my daughter myself after a while, but was different circumstances at the time (one baby, during lockdown etc etc)🙈now we have a toddler and a baby. Shittin it lol
I can remember with our first it was drilled into us at all the classes breastfed is best very little information about formula or what to do when switching.when he was born the midwife helped getting him latched the first time after that it was very much you’re on your own I had to go and ask for help very rudely the second day because the response my partner was getting was you’ll figure it out. If it wasn’t for our public health nurse we would have been lost when we got home
I’m probably an outlier, but of me and my 3 brothers, only I was formula fed.
Never get the flu or colds or covid or infections unlike my brothers who catch shit every year
Its all propaganda from Big Breast! /s
I was only going to be able to breast feed for a few weeks as I was going to start chemo after she was born. The nurses were absolutely no help & I ended up crying and being told to just give her a bottle. I did because I didn’t feel I had a choice. On 3rd day my boobs were so full & sore so I decided to try again myself. I’m so glad I did. I had 3 weeks of feeding her. I don’t know if it helped her much, I hope so. She thrived on bottles too anyway.
Can confirm that bottle feeding made me less likely to get mentally sick. So there.
I’ve a 2 and a half yo he’s been breastfed and has been sick, well there was that one day last year ! Thankfully he’s never really been sick, has an odd snuffle or mild cough but nothing major. However we also live on a farm which I think makes them ‘healthyer’ and he’s not had the full raft of vaccines only the tetanus/diphtheria think it’s 5 or 6 in one now.
This is only true when they’re very small. I was fed formula in the 70s because the doctors said it was best back then. I went through my 20s and 30s basically never sick apart from hangovers. Then when I’d kids I had a cold almost all the time.
This data is hopelessly confounded. There’s nothing in the paper about adjusting for socio economic status for example. The exclusively breast fed group is definitely wealthier which obviously will be correlated with better outcomes.
Everyone should breast feed if it works for them but if it doesn’t formula is fine and has lots of other advantages (eg less stress on the mother, easier to split night feeds, easier to return to work etc)
My kids were breast fed because it worked for my wife although we mixed with formula for night feeds after a while. I’ve friends though who had kids and found it very difficult to breast feed and they had hungry kids. That’s not optimal either
Can’t believe you needed a study to figure that one out..
There’s so much playing into this. Were the kids that were bottle fed and the kids that were breastfed both exclusively at home or not? How were the socio economic standards, the same? Siblings there or not etc.
That being said…
Yes, most likely breastfeeding is better due to antibodies etc.
However, this and other studies might lead people to see it as the holy grail.
Friend of mine didn’t produce enough milk. She was shamed as a bad mother because obviously it was her choice and doing
/s
and then shamed because she chose formular, as “you don’t give your child what it needs”. They both needed sleep for feck sake, and a fed baby. Not a baby trying to get fed every 1 hour and an exhausted and shitty feeling mom.
Now make adult breastfeeding normal.
This is based on a survey conducted 15 years ago retrospectively. It looks like you can have a slight advantage in antibodies with breastfeeding or growth with bottle feeding but it’s a pretty small difference. Although it is interesting to note that the most serious illness on the survey, meningitis, skewed to the bottle feeding side yet this seems to have been left out of the abstract completely. Makes me wonder about the motivations behind it.
Myself and my husband came down with a horrific cold/cough when I was 2 weeks post partum. My little one who is completely breastfed didnt even get a sniffle, so i was pretty proud of that. On the flip side she’s now a bottle refuser so I’m stuck feeding her and terrified of doing anything that might cause my supply to dip. We have literally no other way of getting food into her right now. Breast is best can go and shite, I’d love to be able to give her formula and have some peace of mind.
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Of my sample of 3 children, all exclusively breastfed, child 1 rarely gets sick, child 2 catches everything and child 3 picks up lots from child 2.
If we only supported it instead of under staffing our maternity hospital – one bad night and they’re firing the Aptamil at them in Holles Street. They don’t have the capacity to help with latching etc.
I only breastfed my eldest for 6 weeks and she has a weak immune system – asthmatic with every skin condition going, but my second was breastfed for 7 months and is far more healthy with zero underlying issues. Currently 4 months into breastfeeding the third so jury’s out on that still.
To sucessfully breastfeed you need lots of support. Not just with the physical difficulties many people have but if a baby is on your boob for most of the day you need a partner that does everything around the house and care for other kids etc.
Imagine nature is better than formula
I think it’s well established that breastfeeding provides antibodies to babies.
Just to note on the other side, breastfed babies are “were also more likely to fail to gain weight”- If you or your baby is struggling there is absolutely no shame in using formula.
I think everybody can agree that fed is best at the end of the day.
I haven’t read the report, but I wonder if they factored in if the baby was delivered naturally or C-section too.
I’ve heard similar cases of natural birth babies having better /’more antibodies than C-section.
More bullying women into breastfeeding.
For decades and generations babies were formula fed. They all turned out great.
I’ve only experience with one baby so far, but my daughter was sick once in the 2 years we breastfed. She got hand foot and mouth at age 1. But never had a fever or a bad cold (minor snots mostly)..even after starting in childcare at 15 months. stopped breastfeeding at 2 and shes had fevers, bad colds, sore throats, the whole lot week after week. I put it down to stopping breastfeeding. Due baby no2 in just under 6 weeks, hoping to combi feed to take pressure off myself. Found it was actually handier to exclusively feed my daughter myself after a while, but was different circumstances at the time (one baby, during lockdown etc etc)🙈now we have a toddler and a baby. Shittin it lol
I can remember with our first it was drilled into us at all the classes breastfed is best very little information about formula or what to do when switching.when he was born the midwife helped getting him latched the first time after that it was very much you’re on your own I had to go and ask for help very rudely the second day because the response my partner was getting was you’ll figure it out. If it wasn’t for our public health nurse we would have been lost when we got home
I’m probably an outlier, but of me and my 3 brothers, only I was formula fed.
Never get the flu or colds or covid or infections unlike my brothers who catch shit every year
Its all propaganda from Big Breast! /s
I was only going to be able to breast feed for a few weeks as I was going to start chemo after she was born. The nurses were absolutely no help & I ended up crying and being told to just give her a bottle. I did because I didn’t feel I had a choice. On 3rd day my boobs were so full & sore so I decided to try again myself. I’m so glad I did. I had 3 weeks of feeding her. I don’t know if it helped her much, I hope so. She thrived on bottles too anyway.
Can confirm that bottle feeding made me less likely to get mentally sick. So there.
I’ve a 2 and a half yo he’s been breastfed and has been sick, well there was that one day last year ! Thankfully he’s never really been sick, has an odd snuffle or mild cough but nothing major. However we also live on a farm which I think makes them ‘healthyer’ and he’s not had the full raft of vaccines only the tetanus/diphtheria think it’s 5 or 6 in one now.
This is only true when they’re very small. I was fed formula in the 70s because the doctors said it was best back then. I went through my 20s and 30s basically never sick apart from hangovers. Then when I’d kids I had a cold almost all the time.
This data is hopelessly confounded. There’s nothing in the paper about adjusting for socio economic status for example. The exclusively breast fed group is definitely wealthier which obviously will be correlated with better outcomes.
Everyone should breast feed if it works for them but if it doesn’t formula is fine and has lots of other advantages (eg less stress on the mother, easier to split night feeds, easier to return to work etc)
My kids were breast fed because it worked for my wife although we mixed with formula for night feeds after a while. I’ve friends though who had kids and found it very difficult to breast feed and they had hungry kids. That’s not optimal either
Further reading https://freakonomics.com/podcast/how-important-is-breastfeeding-really/
tl;dr
More milkers; less milk
Can’t believe you needed a study to figure that one out..
There’s so much playing into this. Were the kids that were bottle fed and the kids that were breastfed both exclusively at home or not? How were the socio economic standards, the same? Siblings there or not etc.
That being said…
Yes, most likely breastfeeding is better due to antibodies etc.
However, this and other studies might lead people to see it as the holy grail.
Friend of mine didn’t produce enough milk. She was shamed as a bad mother because obviously it was her choice and doing
/s
and then shamed because she chose formular, as “you don’t give your child what it needs”. They both needed sleep for feck sake, and a fed baby. Not a baby trying to get fed every 1 hour and an exhausted and shitty feeling mom.
Now make adult breastfeeding normal.
This is based on a survey conducted 15 years ago retrospectively. It looks like you can have a slight advantage in antibodies with breastfeeding or growth with bottle feeding but it’s a pretty small difference. Although it is interesting to note that the most serious illness on the survey, meningitis, skewed to the bottle feeding side yet this seems to have been left out of the abstract completely. Makes me wonder about the motivations behind it.
Myself and my husband came down with a horrific cold/cough when I was 2 weeks post partum. My little one who is completely breastfed didnt even get a sniffle, so i was pretty proud of that. On the flip side she’s now a bottle refuser so I’m stuck feeding her and terrified of doing anything that might cause my supply to dip. We have literally no other way of getting food into her right now. Breast is best can go and shite, I’d love to be able to give her formula and have some peace of mind.