breastfed babies result in better behaved children?

[OmarsMum]

I always give amelie semi and skimmed milk!

I also give Omar semi skimmed milk.

There is a thread in BC about a mum who's giving her newborns semi skimmed as she considers formula as "powdered milk"

 

[Gen79]

I always give amelie semi and skimmed milk!

its fine at 2

 

[summer rain]

The main 'formula' available in the UK until the mid-70s and the one you used to get with milk tokens (now healthy start vouchers) was just powdered cows milk with vitamin D and because of it lots of babies ended up in hospital with high blood sodium levels and various vitamin deficiencies. My mum was brought up from birth on sterilised milk which nowadays is almost always skimmed but even if it wasn't back then, it had no added vitamins and the wrong levels of everything for a baby; no wonder my mum lost a lot of teeth in her teens; had severe high blood pressure since the age of 20 and she has always had infections left right and centre needing antibiotics. Its so sad to think in this day and age people are still so ignorant that they'd feed a newborn with straight milk.

 

[Laura2919]

I wonder if there will ever be a discussion on here when we don't have to read people using the word 'poison' in relation to FF. I haven't seen anyone say that FF is poison and have been reading from the start. Why oh why is it always brought up?

If you actually read what I wrote I didnt say someone has said it.. I said its like it is.. Thats how I feel. People have said they would rather someone feed their baby than give them formula...

 

[Laura2919]

I stick by what I said, some of the comments here are like we are doing something wrong by giving our children formula. I gave my girls it and I refuse to feel bad, I dont want someone else, I dont care who it is feeding my child with their boob. Thats my baby. Some women cant breastfeed so they choose formula and the comments on here can seem like its breastfeeding or nothing at all. Lets face it there is only breastmilk and formula so one has to work.

At 12 months Chloe and Jaycee had cows milk, full fat. They still do now. If I run out they have semi skimmed.

 

[Laura2919]

Some comments on here talk about making a mum who FF feel bad. Like formula is some sort of poison and we are harming our children.

was that aimed at me?

Its aimed at everyone who thinks that formula is bad.. Formula is the only option for some parents.. Not everyone is comfortable letting another women breastfeed her child or breastfeeding herself.

 

[Blah11]

No one said it was bad? You're not comfortable breastfeeding or letting someone else BF your baby, I'm not comfortable with giving my baby formula unless I've exhausted all other avenues. It works both ways. I'm not getting offended because you don't want to BF, I dunno why you are because I don't want to FF

 

[Cloberella]

I wonder if there will ever be a discussion on here when we don't have to read people using the word 'poison' in relation to FF. I haven't seen anyone say that FF is poison and have been reading from the start. Why oh why is it always brought up?

If you actually read what I wrote I didnt say someone has said it.. I said its like it is.. Thats how I feel. People have said they would rather someone feed their baby than give them formula...

That doesn't mean they equate it to poison. I would find it very hard to have another woman feed my baby but I feel that I would just need to get over it because its important to me.

For the record though, my baby was given formula for a few hours when they lost some of my colostrum, so I don't think it's poison.

 

[Kalah]

Some comments on here talk about making a mum who FF feel bad. Like formula is some sort of poison and we are harming our children.

was that aimed at me?

Its aimed at everyone who thinks that formula is bad.. Formula is the only option for some parents.. Not everyone is comfortable letting another women breastfeed her child or breastfeeding herself.

The last few pages of this thread have actually been quite nice, no one is saying anything bad about giving formula at all
I know this thread started out quite heated but now it's just a friendly conversation

 

[Laura2919]

Some comments on here talk about making a mum who FF feel bad. Like formula is some sort of poison and we are harming our children.

was that aimed at me?

Its aimed at everyone who thinks that formula is bad.. Formula is the only option for some parents.. Not everyone is comfortable letting another women breastfeed her child or breastfeeding herself.

The last few pages of this thread have actually been quite nice, no one is saying anything bad about giving formula at all
I know this thread started out quite heated but now it's just a friendly conversation as I havent been on til this morning....

My post was a while back and I was answering the posts that were quoting me..

 

[Kalah]

Some comments on here talk about making a mum who FF feel bad. Like formula is some sort of poison and we are harming our children.

was that aimed at me?

Its aimed at everyone who thinks that formula is bad.. Formula is the only option for some parents.. Not everyone is comfortable letting another women breastfeed her child or breastfeeding herself.

The last few pages of this thread have actually been quite nice, no one is saying anything bad about giving formula at all
I know this thread started out quite heated but now it's just a friendly conversation as I havent been on til this morning....

My post was a while back and I was answering the posts that were quoting me..

Oh alright sorry then, just wanted to avoid the thread going back downhill, everyone knows how fast that can happen!

 

[indy and lara]

I wonder if there will ever be a discussion on here when we don't have to read people using the word 'poison' in relation to FF. I haven't seen anyone say that FF is poison and have been reading from the start. Why oh why is it always brought up?

If you actually read what I wrote I didnt say someone has said it.. I said its like it is.. Thats how I feel. People have said they would rather someone feed their baby than give them formula...

I did read your post and I still question why the word was yet again used. Choosing not to give formula DOES NOT mean that you think FF is terrible, just that it is not for you. I am sorry you feel that way but that is not what was being said. In every thread I read someone ALWAYS brings up the word poison. People who would choose for someone else to BF their child do so because they believe in BF, that does not mean that they think formula is awful.

 

[Gen79]

I wonder if there will ever be a discussion on here when we don't have to read people using the word 'poison' in relation to FF. I haven't seen anyone say that FF is poison and have been reading from the start. Why oh why is it always brought up?

If you actually read what I wrote I didnt say someone has said it.. I said its like it is.. Thats how I feel. People have said they would rather someone feed their baby than give them formula...

I did read your post and I still question why the word was yet again used. Choosing not to give formula DOES NOT mean that you think FF is terrible, just that it is not for you. I am sorry you feel that way but that is not what was being said. In every thread I read someone ALWAYS brings up the word poison. People who would choose for someone else to BF their child do so because they believe in BF, that does not mean that they think formula is awful.

And even more to the point, it doesn't mean they judge you or even care what you feed your child. Or maybe they do. What do you care? Own your decision.

 

[LeeBee]

I understand that people feel strongly about breast feeding- and more power to them- but it really doesn't help anyone when you call it "poison" or put down people who choose to use it. I have incredible anxiety over whether I will breastfeed vs. formula feed, and instead of feeling comfortable asking about it, I feel like I'll get jumped on- so I don't say anything. And if that's the reaction you're getting from people, then you're not doing a very good job promoting it. I personally find it to be a bit of a turn off.

Though I do recognize that there are some BF mother's who do promote it in the right way, so I'm certainly not generalizing the BF peeps

 

[Cloberella]

I understand that people feel strongly about breast feeding- and more power to them- but it really doesn't help anyone when you call it "poison" or put down people who choose to use it. I have incredible anxiety over whether I will breastfeed vs. formula feed, and instead of feeling comfortable asking about it, I feel like I'll get jumped on- so I don't say anything. And if that's the reaction you're getting from people, then you're not doing a very good job promoting it. I personally find it to be a bit of a turn off.

Though I do recognize that there are some BF mother's who do promote it in the right way, so I'm certainly not generalizing the BF peeps

But the only person who called it poison was a formula feeder...

 

[Gen79]

I understand that people feel strongly about breast feeding- and more power to them- but it really doesn't help anyone when you call it "poison" or put down people who choose to use it. I have incredible anxiety over whether I will breastfeed vs. formula feed, and instead of feeling comfortable asking about it, I feel like I'll get jumped on- so I don't say anything. And if that's the reaction you're getting from people, then you're not doing a very good job promoting it. I personally find it to be a bit of a turn off.

But is that the reason that you'll choose to formula feed? Just because you're "put off" by how bfing is promoted. If so then yes, you're doing your child an injustice. Sorry, but that's how I feel. Not because formula is bad but because breast IS better and how you feel about people you don't know or worse, a campaign, shouldn't have anything to do with that decision.

 

[moomin_troll]

even tho i was a FF mummy i dont understand why women wont try to bf if they can try.
then to me atleast baby has got something from it, and then if u cant or find u really dont want to then swap.

its much easier to go from breast to bottle rather then starting off with bottle and then regreting never trying.

the one thing im worried about while trying to bf baby 2 is the publics reaction to breastfeeding! its disgusting that some mothers are told they are perverts by strangers in the street. i am a gobby cow and i no if someone made a nasty comment id start screaming at them lol

 

[Kalah]

I understand that people feel strongly about breast feeding- and more power to them- but it really doesn't help anyone when you call it "poison" or put down people who choose to use it. I have incredible anxiety over whether I will breastfeed vs. formula feed, and instead of feeling comfortable asking about it, I feel like I'll get jumped on- so I don't say anything. And if that's the reaction you're getting from people, then you're not doing a very good job promoting it. I personally find it to be a bit of a turn off.

Though I do recognize that there are some BF mother's who do promote it in the right way, so I'm certainly not generalizing the BF peeps

But the only person who called it poison was a formula feeder...

I wouldn't be surprised if formula feeders are the only ones on this forum who call it poison. Doesn't actually make any sense

 

[moomin_troll]

there was someone on a thread ages ago who was a bf mum and called FF poison, so thats where its come from.

 

[LeeBee]

I understand that people feel strongly about breast feeding- and more power to them- but it really doesn't help anyone when you call it "poison" or put down people who choose to use it. I have incredible anxiety over whether I will breastfeed vs. formula feed, and instead of feeling comfortable asking about it, I feel like I'll get jumped on- so I don't say anything. And if that's the reaction you're getting from people, then you're not doing a very good job promoting it. I personally find it to be a bit of a turn off.

But is that the reason that you'll choose to formula feed? Just because you're "put off" by how bfing is promoted. If so then yes, you're doing your child an injustice. Sorry, but that's how I feel. Not because formula is bad but because breast IS better and how you feel about people you don't know or worse, a campaign, shouldn't have anything to do with that decision.

No, that's not what I meant. I mean that BF mom's would have a lot of useful information to give me, yet I'm put off by how they react to formula feeders so I don't bother to ask. And that, in the end, could have an effect on which route I choose to go.