hi girls,
v long never come in, having jealousy problems with my elder boy, he's been v difficult, throwing tantrums and disobeying all the time. Last week refuse to come home to sleep, insist on sleeping at grandma's place. V tired and quite sad, he even say he don't love me.
About BM, I honestly think if frozen BM no good, or not better than FM, then everybody who starts work and has to pump milk would have stopped BF. PDs and LCs would not be encouraging it. If EBM is frozen immediately and handled in a sterile manner, it is definitely good for our babies. Cows milk has no antibodies to protect your baby as only human milk as human antibodies that can protect your baby from illness. Cows milk has always been used as a substitute for human milk, not because it's better, but because not everybody has BM. BM has the perfect balance of nutrients and vitamins, while cows milk is processed. If frozen BM is not fresh, then FM that has been sitting in the tin is even less fresh, in my humble opinion.
Shycloud,
It was in the papers the other day that BM is the best and mothers who BF save a lot of money from having to buy FM, which is a lot more costly than milk bags. One tin of FM doesn't last v long, ask those mums who are giving FM only. The initial investment of a pump also zeros off if the mother continues to BF. My elder boy was TBF until 10 months old. He was strong and healthy, only fell sick twice in his first year. When I eventually wanted to wean him off, he was already on solid food. Just intro one bottle FM a day, he had no problem taking it. After one week, two bottles. It actually took me 1 whole month to decrease my supply from the initial 800ml or so of BM. Every week decrease by 200ml.