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Two of my friends who EBF have the sickest kids I’ve ever met in my life. Ignore her. Shes being an ass.
She’s an asshole 100%. My friends breastfed child was sick way more often than my child who was on formula, it’s not a magic potion to never get sick
lol my breastfed son gets sick ALL the time 🥴 she’s an idiot and an AH
My child has been breastfed since birth and is 2 and we still breastfeeding. She has had covid, a stomach bug, and just recently had rsv. Breastfed babies are not immune to illness.
My youngest was breastfed for 2 years, and guess what? She's been ill more times than I can count on both hands in almost 4 years of her life. Yet my eldest was breastfed only for a short period of time, then formula fed exclusively, and is rarely ill 🙈 like each child is different and their immune system, etc, is different. What i think as well is spring/summer babies get to mix with people and their immune system has way more time to prepare compared to autumn/winter babies due to this time of year bugs, viruses, etc, being rife. Well that's my take on it.
My 6 month old is breastfed, every time my son gets a cold, so does she. Sounds like your friend is one of those mums who thinks she better because she bf
I had a group of friends who all breastfed and I couldn’t so had to use formula, their children were all sick often mine was never sick. It doesn’t make a difference each child is different!
I wish my breastmilk stopped my baby being ill🤣
Just a thought, she's not telling YOU to breastfeed, she's probably saying to give some donor milk. So like you can say no to that idea, but she's not dumb for saying it. When I pumped and donated milk, a lady used to get milk literally only to give her baby when he got sick at daycare. It isn't tailored with the perfect antibodies, but it still has a ton of antibodies
I’m pretty sure the antibodies babies received from breastmilk are the antibodies the mum is producing at the time. So if mum has cold, baby has antibodies to that specific cold. Not the colds they’ll be catch in nursery. Anyway, hard to tell intention just from a one-sided recollection of the event, but I’d probably ask her to never bring it up again. It’s ok to set boundaries, even around well-intentioned comments.
Breastfed babies also get sick 🤷🏻♀️