For those who opted for EFF by choice!

[mommysbaby]

What were your reasons for going for EFF after getting nice amount of milk yourself?

 

[skunkpixie]

Im not quite sure I understand the question?

Women's reasons for choosing EFF are very specific and dependant on each individual. The most common reasons include things like not being able to breastfeed due to medical reasons, traumatic births, returning to work soon after baby is born, body confidence issues, psycological body issues, adoptive parents, and doing what's best dependant on family situations.

The reason I chose to EFF my second child after EBF my first fall into the last catagory. xx

 

[mommysbaby]

Im not quite sure I understand the question?

Women's reasons for choosing EFF are very specific and dependant on each individual. The most common reasons include things like not being able to breastfeed due to medical reasons, traumatic births, returning to work soon after baby is born, body confidence issues, psycological body issues, adoptive parents, and doing what's best dependant on family situations.

The reason I chose to EFF my second child after EBF my first fall into the last catagory. xx

Sorry if I have offended anyone. What I wanted to ask was these are the conditions where. You want to but can't . But I have seen a couple of moms who just did not want to and are waiting for their supply to dry up.
Also the main reason I am asking this is I am fighting for keeping my supply up bydifferent means which was reduced a lot because of my stupidity only. Now. I feel so guilty that I thought of getting some positives of FF from such moms.
Sorry again for the confusion.

 

[MarcsMrs]

I chose to formula feed from birth because I just did not want to breastfeed, no medical issue or trauma I just didnt want to do it & I am 100% happy with my decision

 

[Aliciaxo]

I had an EMC that ended in complications. I was unable to get out of bed or adjust my self in bed for two weeks. Therefore bf was just way too much for me to handle. I was heartbroken at the time since my milk came in and I had my heart set on bf. But i've been ff and I dont regret a thing

 

[MissMummy2Be]

I chose to FF from birth as my nephew chocked while being BF and it turned me off as i was pregnant with my first at the time also because i did not feel comfortable with the idea of BF in public.

 

[mrsbeano]

so I could leave the house! LO was a snacky eater so the majority of the time he would want to eat for 5-10 minutes every hour or two. It was making it hard for me to go out and the sleep deprivation was awful.

As a FF baby he eats every 3-4 hours and sleeps well at night.

The reasons are all selfish however, he would have been fine as a BF baby but I couldn't face being stuck to the sofa for the next 6 months! x

 

[time]

i am choosing to formula feed for a few reasons,

mainly my husband and i are self employed in the same business which we own and so will not be able to take a lot of time off work, for this reason we will be mainly taking it in turns staying at home with baby, as well as my mum looking after her. I may sound selfish saying this but i am not willing to express such an amount of milk that i could make breastfeeding possible, i will be working 8 hours a day some days and those nights husband will be doing the night feeds, so it would mean expressing such a huge amount of milk that i would spend all my spare time at home, when i should be with my baby, expressing!

i also witnessed my sil attempt to breast feed for 12 weeks and saw how hard she struggled, i know this doesn't mean that i will but i want to be prepared from the beginning to be able to formula feed and know exactly what i am doing so i am not having a horrible time stressing like my sil was. she has a much happier baby and is so much happier in herself now that she is formula feeding.

 

[.rollinn.]

I probably would have FF from the start even if i could. I'll admit for selfish reasons i couldn't imagine bf'ing with a teething baby. MY GOD!

 

[aimee-lou]

First was simply because I didn't want to.

Second was because I didn't want to and also I have to take medication which I didn't want to pass on either.

Any babies in the future will also be FF'd from birth.

 

[Mummythree]

I ff my first because i knew nothing about breastfeeding, my mum filled my head with all this rubbish about breastfeeding and being my first i never knew any better, i was really young and had no support and didnt like the thought of doing in public. i did try to breastfeed though but only did it for a full day and night and stopped it was too painfull and i wasnt planning to bf anyways but i tried and it was the best desicion for me at the time.

My second i breastfed for 14months and went through some amount of s*** to do so. i had so many probs and ended up with pnd but i went on to bf for 14months anyways.

this time i breastfed for 5days but when my milk came in my son couldn no longer latch and he was getting stressed at every feed necause he couldnt latch, my boobs were too engored and expressing wasnt helping. i was expressing when my son slept meaning i wasnt sleeping, my nipples were agony, blistered, bleeding and bits of skin coming off them. and at feeds my son couldnt latch on it was horrendous plus i have 2 other Lo's and was recovering from section i wasnt enjoying it at all and felt it wasnt fair on my son to have to get so upset and trying so hard to latch when he couldnt. so i didnt have much choice but to give up and bottlefeed. it killed me at first. but now in a way im glad hes happy, healthy, thriving and sleeps well, i was misrable bfing dd2 and the way things were going this time i couldnt i would have been misrable again.

if i have any more i couldnt put myself through that again so would most likely ff again. but theres that reason and others too.

 

[KittyVentura]

Hmm. Well, I did hope and aim to EBF Millie Mops. However I very soon realised that I couldn't comfortably sit and cluster feed with her all day long (even if just for a few weeks) while my "still very young, dependant and spoiled for attention" son had to get used to a new family member AND suddenly his Mummy having such minimal time for him.

So yeah, I thought long and hard, about the pros and cons for BOTH of my babies and made a choice myself to EFF instead. Sure, my milk was in and I had a great supply, she also had a great latch and was an eager feeder. If she was my only child or there was a larger gap then I think I would have stuck to EBF.

But, my son needed me as well as my daughter. My husband has a job that means he works away and I am a SAHM so Fin is so used to it being him and I, together all day and having my sole attention. Just having a new baby meant so much attention was being taken away and his life having to change so much. I simply couldn't take even more from him. I just couldn't.

Sure, others might not have made the same choice but I am MORE than happy with the one I made and feel very confident it was the best choice overall. I have a healthy, content, relaxed and extremely smiley and happy baby girl and toddler boy... and he just dotes on her. Not an ounce of resentment. He loves her so much. We're a very happy little unit and the 2 under 2 journey has, for me, been nowhere near as bad as I was expecting. I put a certain amount of that down to my feeding choice xx

 

[Arisa]

Well I wasnt going to FF at first but the more i looked into it the more i wanted to FF especially being on medication that just added to my desire to FF as i did not want my medication going through my breast milk and i was fortunate that my milk did not come in at all due to these meds so it made it easier to explain as i kind of felt i had to explain myself for why i chose to FF which is bad and wrong but its the way society works but my point is that even if i had no medication and had tons of milk in my boobies i would opt to FF and take the meds to dry up my milk as I find it much easier on my mental sanity and its great that my family and friends can feed her and i know how much she is getting since she was a fussy eater and not eating enough so we were able to go to the hospital and seek advice from the pediatrician on how much and how many times a day we should be feeding her and i am proud to say she is thriving on formula and extremely alert, curious and rather advanced so FF has not stopped her development whatsoever

 

[Linzi_x]

i BF for the first week but my reasons for EFF is because it was stressing me out. Francesca wanted to cluster feed sometimes which could mean feeding non-stop for 4 hours straight. i couldn't cope which would stress out Francesca. in the end it wasn't good for either of us. at first i felt guilty but it is by far the best decision i've made! we are much more happier