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Why Children Should be Breast Fed!!

dreherdreher Member Posts: 8,892 ✭✭✭✭
edited March 2015 in General Discussion
My 15 year old son was nursed for almost two years. Thursday evening he started getting sick with the flu. This is the first time he has ever had the flu. Mom gave that boy a real good immune system!!


Uri has had an attitude adjustment. He thought that the kids who got the flu were the lucky ones because they got to stay home from school and watch TV, play video games, etc. Uri had no idea they stayed home because they felt like poop!![:D]
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  • wiz1997wiz1997 Member Posts: 1,051 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    How can you tell which kids belong to Dolly Parton?

    They have stretch marks on their cheeks.[:D][:p]
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  • Rack OpsRack Ops Member Posts: 18,596 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    My experience with my own son changed my perceptions on breastfeeding, which I had never seen as a big deal.

    He was breastfed for the first 9 months or so....my wife couldn't continue because her milk soured for an unexplained reason.

    In those nine months, he was literally never sick. After the switch, he started developing colds, ear infections, etc. He's never been a sickly kid, but there was a noticable change between breastmilk and formula.
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  • MobuckMobuck Member Posts: 14,163 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Kind of a narrow test base to make such a general statement.
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  • grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 48,464 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Just a question did you let him grow up as a boy. Out playing in the dirt, handling animals such as chickens snakes and lizards.



    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothesis
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  • dreherdreher Member Posts: 8,892 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    100% All American boy. By the time he was 5 Uri had been sewed up twice, in the ER for various injuries and has fallen out of every good climbing tree in the neighborhood. Barefoot was his normal footwear, getting shoes on him to start school was a chore. But in his defense, he has only fallen off the garage once.[:D]
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  • ChrisInTempeChrisInTempe Member Posts: 15,562 ✭
    edited November -1
    Feeding babies, it's what the breast was designed to do. Whether one believes in evolution, God's Good Works or both, why deny countless generations of proof that "Oh, so that's what them things are for!?"

    Sometimes things still go wrong. So then it's either the old fashioned Wet Nurse or it's baby formula. Or donated breast milk delivered by bottle, I've heard of that too.
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  • dreherdreher Member Posts: 8,892 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    On one of Uri's ER visits I was answering the Dr.s questions, basically saying no repeatedly. No he hasn't had that, no he hasn't had this, until the Dr. started getting pissy with me, saying I needed to have his mother come in so he could get the correct info on his forms/records. Uri was around 6 on that ER visit. (Drove a metal stake into his barefoot foot by leaping a ditch and landing on it.) I told him he has never had any kind of illness. The Dr. said that is impossible. That is when I said his Mom nursed him until 1 week before his second birthday. The Dr. looked at me and said "Oh, now I'll buy what you're telling me. I would see far fewer children if they were all nursed for at least a year."
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  • retroxler58retroxler58 Member Posts: 32,693 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Why Children Should be Breast Fed!!'Cause breastees are good ?
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  • RobOzRobOz Member Posts: 9,523 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    I'm 47 and have never had the actual flu.
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  • grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 48,464 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by dreher
    100% All American boy. By the time he was 5 Uri had been sewed up twice, in the ER for various injuries and has fallen out of every good climbing tree in the neighborhood. Barefoot was his normal footwear, getting shoes on him to start school was a chore. But in his defense, he has only fallen off the garage once.[:D]


    Think That may have had more to do with it than the Breast milk. Kids are too protected these days so it does not take much to make them sick. As a kid whoever heard of getting sick from going to a petting zoo. now they have those hand wipe every where so you can stay clean.
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  • grumpygygrumpygy Member Posts: 48,464 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    quote:Originally posted by RobOz
    I'm 47 and have never had the actual flu.


    The only time I had the Actual full blown sick as a dog flu was the 1st year they did the flu shot in the military. The one with the live virus.
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  • spasmcreekspasmcreek Member Posts: 37,717 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    figured formula was just another item made in chinee...no inspection required....but i figured it had enough antifreeze in it ...most kids don't mind winters cold
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  • 11b6r11b6r Member Posts: 16,584 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Why Children Should be Breast Fed!!

    1. Good for the baby
    2. Good for the mom
    3. Much more fun to wash the bottles!
    [:p]
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  • cbxjeffcbxjeff Member Posts: 17,640 ✭✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Sadly, Jeff was a bottle baby. Mom just wanted to be friends!
    It's too late for me, save yourself.
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  • TrinityScrimshawTrinityScrimshaw Member Posts: 9,350 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    dreher,

    Honestly I was a bit shocked when I first read "My 15 year old son was nursed for almost".

    Thankfully I kept reading, and you explained it further...Lol[:D][:D][:D]

    Trinity +++
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  • telohftelohf Member Posts: 912 ✭✭
    edited November -1
    mmmmmmmmmm...boobies rule!
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  • LaidbackDanLaidbackDan Member Posts: 13,142 ✭✭✭
    edited November -1
    Too late for me I was bottle fed,
    is there any case studies of acquiring the immunity later on in life?

    I'm very rarely sick but did date a lot of healthy women in my younger days
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  • hk-91hk-91 Member Posts: 10,050
    edited November -1
    Are youngest was breast feed up till about 7 months until his moms milk supply dried up. He was never sick until he went to just formula. We even had the flu. Everyone but the baby got it. His mom had it first and the doc said the anti bodies from her breast milk is what kept him from getting the flu.
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