missy1
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My LO has been unwell recently. She had gastroenteritis a couple of weeks ago then just this past weekend had a high temperature for a few days and just seemed under the weather. She is 6 months old and has been perfectly healthy up until now. I took her to the doctor yesterday because of her fever and he said he thought it was another bug like gastroenteritis but without the sickness & diarrhoea. I said I was upset she has a bug so quickly after getting over another one and he then asked if she was breast or bottle fed. I told him bottle and he said well that'll be why she picks these things up as breast fed babies have a better immune system. I was really surprised he said this and I didn't say anything at the time but was about to justify to him why I didn't breast feed. I'm glad i didn't but I've come home feeling really low about it and going through that whole 'mothers guilt' thing again. I obviously know that there are benefits to breast feeding. I don't think there was any need for him to remind me at that particular time. Have your bottle fed babies had loads of sickness? I'm so worried an I feel terrible, even though breast feeding wasn't possible for us