Question on formula feed verses bfeeding...
mummy2girls wrote: From the moms that breast fed ...do you find your baby is much healthier and not get sick so much...
from the moms that formula fed...do you find your child gets sick more freauently?
Jenna was bf for 3 months then i formula fed her. and she is sick all the time. Im not sure if it was because of that or if it was because she was in daycare. I know some moms think daycare is a reason for alot of sicknesses and some dont...
just curious. because seems to be sick ALOT!!!! she is not sick now...crossing my fingers.
Hillbilly Housewife replied: I bf for about 2 1/2 months.... and he wasn't sick until he went into daycare when he was about 4 months old.
I don't think it has THAT much to do with sickness (bfeeding) but I guess it has SOME part to play in it....
Edited to say that overall, he's only been really sick once.... his fever was really high, and he was put on antibiotics, it had to do also with teething and an ear infection...he was fine afer a couple days.... the rest of his sicknesses was mostly when he was teething. If he gets a cold, it onlylasts 1 or 2 days...unlike mine, where it drags on for like 2 weeks... 
chloe&tysmommy replied: I didn't breastfeed and my dd has gotten the cold maybe twice. My SIL's dd was breastfed and was sick a lot....she also runs a dayhome so that could be why. I would say it depends on the child and their immunity system
MommyToAshley replied: I BF Ashley and she has only been sick twice. The first time she got sick was on her first birthday  DH and I had that nasty cold that was going around for about a week before she caught it, I think it was inevitable that she was going to catch it too. We were sick for two weeks, she was only sick for about 4 or 5 days. The second time was just recently, about a week ago. She caught that nasty 24 hour flu bug that was going around. DH and I caught it too. She was only sick for a day though and then was back to her normal self. I, personally, think it has to do with BF, but I guess there is no way of knowing for sure.
CantWait replied: I exclusively bf Anthony and he has only has so much as the sniffles, even though both Robbie and I had Stomach flu at one point. Robbie wasn't bf however and he was sick quite often. Once he got to daycare it got worse. There's only so much a daycare can do, they can wash all the toys they want, but if a sick kid is there, then there's nothing they can do about it 
kit_kats_mom replied: I am still BFding Katherine at 14 months. She has only been sick twice. Once after her chickenpox vaccine when she spiked a fever for a few days and once after she started part time daycare.
3xsthefun replied: I forumla feed Kaitlynn and she has only been sick a few times. And I'm formula feeding Maegan also.
paradisemommy replied: i bf taven and he's only had a minor minor cold once when he was about 4 months where he spiked a fever and that was it. he's 16 months today and i was just thinking how much i absolutely love bf because i honestly believe that is what has kept him so healthy. our weather over here has changed the last week or so and i think because of it, he started to catch a cold. he in turn gave it to me and mine got worse - i could feel it all in my chest, had a sore throat, really bad cough..i am just now getting over it (about 5 days now) and from the very beginning he's been great - first day, every time he coughed, he would cry (i figured he had a sore throat) but temp was fine and played/ate/laughed...the last couple days he has minor coughing fits but is fine at night, never broke a fever, never even had the sniffles...so i really believe it's the bm...
sorry..a little long winded 
Schnoogly replied: Well overall statistics show that BF babies are healthier than FF. But this is overall. Individually, it varies a lot on environment (i.e. daycare, older siblings in house) and genetics. She might be just as sick if you had BFed her till now, or she might not have. It's really hard to tell. You can't go on anecdotal evidence.
In our case, Iain was only sick while he was in daycare. Since we took him out of daycare he has not been sick ONCE and it's cold season (crossing my fingers). He has a lowered immune system because of surgery but I hope that my BFing him through all our difficulties did help him.
ediep replied: jason is FF and really hasn't been sick a lot.
He had a 24 hour stomach bug once when he was 5 months old
MomToMany replied: I didn't BF my boys, and Logan had a lot of ear infections. The other boys were pretty healthy, since they weren't in day-care, and weren't exposed to a lot of other germs.
I'm still BFing Hannah (19 months old), and she's had 1 ear infection that wasn't even that bad. But she's had pneumonia about 5 or 6 times, which the cause might be genetic, and she has been diagnosed with asthma. I think she would be more sick if I DIDN'T BFeed her.
maliksmommy replied: Malik was FF fed and also in daycare and he has only had a cold twice. I personally don't think it makes a difference either way.
mummy2girls replied: Maby jenna just has a low immunity... her daddy was like that up until he was 5... so if she has his immunity this may last quite a while...
DansMom replied: The thing is that you never know if your particular kid would have been healthier or sicker if fed differently. Daniel only had 1 mild cold the first 9 months of his life, but then in the last 2 months he's had four bad colds. Also, his dairy allergy was likely caused by the cow's milk protein in my breast milk, before I realized he was sensitized to it, which is kind of a bummer, since one reason I was breastfeeding was to decrease the likelihood of allergies! I think the statistics support the idea that BF helps the immune system, but you know, it seems to me that you've done a great job as a mom, and you've worked while being a mom---that's not easy to maintain while BF. There's no reason you should feel bad about the choices you made.
mckayleesmom replied: Mckaylee was breastfed till about 3 months and she has never been sick yet. Dh has been sick alot with flu and colds and so far she hasn't caught it.
supermom replied: I had EBF all of my kids, and I don't know if that was why they didn't seem to get sick as often as other peoples kids or not. I had a home-daycare, too, and it seemed that the babes I watched that were FF were more prone to being sick.
Some of you may think that this is not so great, but I was also never too careful about keeping them away from people who were sick, so I don't know if that maybe built up their immune system, or what, but it seemed like when the older ones got to school age, they didn't miss as much school as the others, either......
jem0622 replied: I bf my eldest DS (3.5) for a year. He had illnesses, but he was in DC and had a blocked tear duct. Overall he was in good health, with the exception of the ears. Some kids have better immune systems than others.
Gabe (14 mos) is still BF. He has rarely been ill. Never had an ear infection. Runny noses, but nothing dreadful. He is not in DC. Doc says he has the most beautiful ears! LOL. Why thank you!
I don't think that formula plays a role. I think it is immunity and daycare together. And if there are allergies then that makes things even more complicated with health matters.
I do believe that there are many benefits to bfing that you don't have with formula. Whenever the boys were sick they would nurse but would never take a bottle. And there are more benefits as well (metabolism, IQ, etc.). While I am partial to bfing I did supplement with Nathan at the end.
Julie
Kaitlin'smom replied: Well both I would say.....
Kaitlin is BF she is now 11 months old, and has only been sick 2 times, her friend Gabby who is just a year old, not BF she has been sick ALOT and has now had 6 ear infections and will have to get tubes in her ears now. So in that comarison BF seems to be better....
However I have seen BF get sick after attending Daycare, just sooo many kids and germs floating about they are bound to be more sick, more often, guess this is one reason I wanted a sitter and not a daycare, but if I could not find a sitter daycare would have had to been a option.
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