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She didn't. She tried it and hated it so I was bottle fed
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6 months. She's a nurse & couldn't pump at work, so she ended up drying up.
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2 years!
My mom spent 10 years of her life breastfeeding.
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Not at all. My mom went back to work 2 weeks after having me (at a fast food restaurant!)
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I think about 2 or 3 months.
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A few days. She had extreme PPD
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Over 2 years
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A couple of months!
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Almost two years.
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My siblings and I were formula babies, Similac to be precise. It just wasn't supported as much back then through military healthcare I don't think.
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Not a long time. She had a lot of issues after giving birth to me and the hospital staff wasn't very supportive. She BF my sister until six months.
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Four years. I weaned myself because I wanted a little sister and she told me she couldn't conceive while nursing (which was true, lucky woman didn't get her period back that whole time). I have great memories of our breastfeeding relationship, very warm and fuzzy. I don't have super clear memories I just remember the feeling, which was basically peace and joy.
My little sister nursed 5 years. Still no period that whole time.
So between nursing and pregnancy, my mom went almost 11 years without periods. Lucky lucky lucky.
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Zero, formula!
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She didnt. Formula was the norm then & even so, my mom errs on the side of extreme when it comes to modesty & being discreet so I think that even had she tried she wouldn't have enjoyed it.
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That's awesome that she kept it up that long! Also interesting that you didn't remember it haha. My older brother & I weren't breastfed at all since it wasn't popular in the 80s and my mom thought it would be a hassle since she went back to work after only a few weeks. She breastfed my little brother for about 12 weeks (until she went back to work).
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A few months. She said she was the only one BFing at her hospital and she pumped for a little when she went back to work.
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About a year
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@Rainbow Sprinkles: My mom says she estimates she did about that!!
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5 weeks. I was allergic to something in her milk, though,so they were 5 miserable, colicky weeks for my parents. Once she stopped, things became much better all around, I'm told!
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Only a few times I believe. She was "too busy" helping my dad open his business I guess. I'm planning to BF until my daughter self weans. But, as she gets older, it would be reserved for mornings/evenings at home type of deal. I don't want to deal with the judgement of full-term BF in public.
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@Arden: That is awesome that you remember and have such positive feelings about it!
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6 months or so.
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0 days. I breast fed for almost 2 years.
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She didn't even try with any of her 3 kids. She said they gave her a pill so that her milk didn't come in.
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Never. She didn't even try. Straight to formula.
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I think I weaned just before my brother was born. I was 15 moths when he came along. but then nursed again for a little when he started nursing. My sibling all nursed longer then me i think, there was more space between them.
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A little over a year. She was the only person she knew at the time (late 70's) that actually breastfed, all her friends formula fed only. My mom told me that the only reason she kept it up was that she and my dad were completely broke and it was much cheaper to breastfeed than buy formula!
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6 weeks. She says I didn't like it, lol.
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0 days. Our area at the time (1980s) wasn't very pro-breastfeeding, and I spent 2 weeks in the NICU after I was born.
DH and his sister were also formula fed from the start, but their younger brother that was born 11 years later was breastfed.
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Not at all for me (I was in the NICU), and about a month for my sister (MSPI, but that wasn't really a known 'thing' 25 years ago).
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Three months?
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Not even once. My mom thought that breastfeeding was gross.
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My mom loved breastfeeding. I self-weaned at a year, and my sister self-weaned at 9 months. I'm sure she would have gone longer if we didn't. She also cloth diapered and had 2 natural births. I felt really bad for having an epidural because I thought my mom would freak out (she didn't) and then for starting supplementing at 3 months because I thought my mom would freak out (she didn't). I am grateful that even though we had different parenting styles, my mom has been very understanding and supportive of mine!
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@GrapeCrush: wait, what?! On purpose so that she wouldn't be able to breastfed? I have never heard of that!
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You'd think I would know, as much as my mom went on and on and on about the magical experience of breastfeeding and her obvious displeasure at my not, but she only references "for quite awhile, perhaps a little too long" with my brother, and only that she did BF me. But my brother and I were 18 months apart so probably not too long is my guess
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@Mrs. Pen: yep! My mom took it for my sister, she said it dried her milk up. I don't think they make it anymore!
0 days for my sister and 6 weeks for me. Apparently 6 miserable weeks because she couldn't have spicy food or Coke because it upset my stomach haha
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@Mrs. Pen: yeah, my mom said it was standard back when she gave birth. She was advised against breastfeeding.
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@Arden: That's so awesome!
6 months…supposedly that was the standard back then where they were.
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3 weeks. She had retaine dproducts of conception though. She breastfed my brothers for a few months each. 20 years after I was born, she bacame a midwife and had my sister (she graduated whilst pregnant) with a new found zeal for breastfeeding and breastfed her for 2 1/2 years.
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One year. She bf my sister for 9 months. I bf my daughter for 15 months.
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