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by HampshireHog on February 19th, 2009
Absolutely yes breastfed until my son was 13 months old. It is just so proven to be so much better than fomula and is one of the best gifts you can give to your baby, best possible start in life. I'm sure you've read all the science, but from personal experience, my son didn't get so much as a cold until I'd stopped feeding when all his baby friends got loads of things, I never kept him away from them. Even now at 3 his immunity is still really good. He was easily weaned because his taste was already used to variety, your milk taste does vary depending on what you've been eating. I never had to sterilize bottles and was able to get out of the house without much planning. It was fabulous for bonding with him. It gave me great self esteem to know I was giving him something so wonderful and natural and to know that I was uniquely the only one who could do this for my baby. I loved it. I followed the EASY routine from 'The Baby Whisperer' by Tracy Hogg. I would highly recommend this book. Once my son became 5 weeks old I stopped demand feeding and got him into a routine of feeds in the same way you would with bottle feeding, this gives your life a bit more freedom and means the baby is hungry and ready for a feed, the danger when breastfeeding is that they can use you as a dummy and then it becomes tiring. This also means they sleep better at night as they tend to take more milk at feeds because they are hungrier. Humans are naturally habitual creatures and babys are especially so it makes sense to put the feeding into a routine. Well I think so anyway.
Hope that answers your question!
Question about your life as a baby: having had breastfeeding or any kind of substitution?
by prof. mes solzhenitsy on April 14th, 2011
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Whats inside the women breasts?
by XT on November 15th, 2010
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How much will my breasts grow after pregnancy and weaning? Do they revert after milk production ceases?
by bannanaphoneist on January 23rd, 2011
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How much milk do your breasts produce in a feeding (at full lactation)?
by milk2milk on January 28th, 2011
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How long can I safely fast and not diminish my milk supply?
by Melissa on March 21st, 2011
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