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Yogini
20 yrs ago
I am breastfeeding now for 11 months and plan to continue. I would be interested to know how long other mums in HK breastfeed.
(The WHO advises to breastfeed up to 6 months exclusively and then introduce solid foods, still breastfeeding up to 2 years or beyond)
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Baby 1 breastfed for 8 months (know today what i did wrong ...)
baby 2 is 17 months and still breastfeeding...
but with the ignorance of some paediatricians, there is no wonder that some moms do not breastfeed long...
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I did for 12 months, then I introduced cow's milk but still breastfed twice a day, then stopped completely at 15 months, because my baby really wasn't interested. Good luck!
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Agree with mamouna on paed. Mine told me at 8 months that I should think about stopping soon now.
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bw
20 yrs ago
Breastfed till 2 years and 10 months.
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baby no. 1 for 2 weeks
baby no. 2 for 2 years!
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Yogini..
8 months is still better...
I had a paed who insisted that I could have started given soups to my baby at 4 months.. and who just couldn't believe me when I said that the WHO was recommending a complete breastfeeding up to 6 months...
another paed responded to that, that it was due to the 'local' mothers who otherwise would give top water in the baby's milk...
well...what do you want to do with that?????
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bw
20 yrs ago
I went through the public system in HK all through pregnancy, delivery, and later as well taking my baby to the MCHC for his jabs etc. Every nurse I met told me the same thing right from the start...breastfeed exclusively till 6 months and continue until 2 years atleast. My mom was like upto 1 year is ok, after that weaning gets too tough. I decided to stick to what the nurses told me cause when my baby turned 1 I was more reluctant than him to start the weaning process. So I started when he turned 2 but it took another 10 months till we stopped entirely. It was a wonderful time not without it's downs though. When we stopped we both were ready!
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1st baby 14 months, and would have continued, but was pregnant, and so I stopped. (although many say it's still safe and fine to continue.) Daughter also started losing interest at the time so I figured - it was okay to stop.
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:-))
20 yrs ago
18 months, although we were down to only a bedtime feed for the last few months. I think the last several months was the best time for breastfeeding for me: only feeding in my daughter's bedroom, I didn't need to worry about wearing easy-access clothes because I could just take them off! And she was only interested in feeding for 5 minutes. A miraculous way to calm her down and bond when I got home from work.
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Two years and five months! Little one nearly three and occassionally still asks for "a little drink" or "a little suck". Too cute. She loved her "boo-eys"
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baby 1 - about 14 months as I was preganant with # 2 and couldn't stand the weight on my belly (# 2 came 19 months later after #1)
Baby 2 - about 24 months as again was pregnant with #3 and the weight was too much - she was really hard to wean as well. (#3 came 27 months after #2)
Baby 3 - 12 months as we left him for a week with grandma and didn't want the breast after that - too easy to wean!
Baby 4 - about 18 months - he just gave up as there was so much else going on that he wanted to be a part of. (#4 is 18 months younger than #3)
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Hi Yogini. Totally agree with bw. I also breastfed my child till 2.4 yrs. sometimes it used to get too difficult, but now am noticing the advantages of it. My daughter was the only one in her class who didn't catch the flu virus. Also, she rarely falls sick and the bonding between us is grrrrrrrrrreat.
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1st - 19 months
2nd - 22 months
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I BF our daughter for 20 mo. At the end it was only a bedtime feed and then we dropped that one very very gently.
As vbshahani noted, mine is also rarely sick and we are also very attached.
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cslee
20 yrs ago
Still bresatfeeding my 30 months boy, plus cow's milk 2 times a day.
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Thanks for all your input! Will continue as long as my baby wants to breastfeed.
I hear all the time when I will stop feeding him but I think this is only from people who have no babies or didn't/ couldn't breastfeed theirs
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Yogini, believe me, I had a real difficult time with Hong Kong people with regards to my baby's weight. Most of the HK babies are very chubby and mine was the typical Indian structured baby. People really troubled me about her size. I think, bottle fed babies tend to be chubbier than breast fed babies. And as I told u earlier, now I am noticing the advantages of having breastfed my child for so long. So, keep up the good work and don't at all listen to what others say about your baby's weight.
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crj
20 yrs ago
This is such an inspiring thread!!
For those of you who work full time and travel a lot for work - how long did you breast feed, and what tips can you share?
I have arranged to work at home for 6 months, and not travel for 9. But I really want to continue to breastfeed after that for at least the first and last feed of the day.
I am already pumping and storing milk, and we do one expressed feed a day when I have to go to meetings. My goal is to have a 3 months supply in freezer at end of 9 months. With the plan to have at least one bottle a day of breast milk when I am away. But ideally, I will be able to pump when I am away to keep the supply up and breast feed when home.
Any other ideas?
I am so worried about managing breastfeeding and work once I start travelling again (it is challening enough now when I am working at home!)
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Hi cri--
I don't know it this would work for you, but one of my best friends travels quite a bit for work, and she brought her baby and helper with her. An extra ticket, and an extra room, but this let her continue breast feeding all feeds for an entire year without a lot of organization and effort on her part. It was almost easier because she wasn't worried about him while she was gone. It worked so well for #1 that now she's planning the same for #2 (a second helper now) once her leave ends this summer.
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crj
20 yrs ago
Thanks MT - that is one of the options we are considering for regional travel to countries where our helper can get a visa.
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Hey -- the longer baby breastfeeds, the older he is (duh) but as a result it's really a totally different experience from BF a newborn. The feeds are spaced further apart, go faster, and it becomes less about purely nutrition and more about special time with mom and closeness. (IMO) The older the baby is, the more nutrition will be coming from other sources and you will be wanting to wean OFF a bottle anyway, so pumping and milk itself is truly less important. (I never even added a bottle because why would I want to have to wean from two things instead of one?) As baby relies more on solids you will gradually switch to that for nutrition and what remains is the comfort nursing, which isn't nearly as often as a newborn every 1.5 hours. Gradually you will notice it is just maybe four times per day, then three, then two, then . . . . Well anyway, personally, I view the question about how long or how often I BF my children as being personal and private -- and just as intrusive as asking details about my sex life. It really is a private decision and should be based on what a mother and child are comfortable with, not what some opinionated outsider considers appropriate. One thing I suggest is that if you want to BF longer than what the average woman does and want to avoid all the criticism, teach your baby a code word to use so only you and he will know what he is asking for. This makes it easier to just keep it private. Rather than being focused on HOW LONG your baby is BF, the curious bystander can be impressed with his obvious mental prowess, your strong loving attachment, his cheery disposition, or whatever. The "meddlesome people" category includes mothers, in laws, and friends who may or may not be supportive. It's simply none of their business, and there's no need for them to know anything about it if you simply never bring up the topic. FWIW, my last child weaned so gradually that I didn't even know it happened. One day I simply realized that it had been more than a week since she had asked to nurse at naptime (we had switched to reading stories for a naptime cuddle). The next time she asked it was about a month later and I simply replied that nanny was all gone, because nanny is really just for babies and she wasn't a baby anymore, and that was the end of it. And I honestly can't remember what age it was, it was so gradual and painless.
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Hmm and interesting topic as my baby is due in 4mths and have been considering how long to BF.. Must admit though, I do have images of the particular character from Little Britain running through my head after reading some of the posts.
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