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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Science can’t answer this for you right now. All these women on here claiming it leads to this or that are not being truthful; there are no proven, definite benefits.

For me, the reasons to keep going were, in order,
1. Sleep. Will your baby fall asleep easily any other way? Mine wouldn’t.
2. Convenience. Bottles: filling, prepping and cleaning them sucks. Breastfeeding is so easy and convenient.
3. [b]Weight loss. This wasn’t a consideration for me but looking back I could eat literally anything I wanted and still unintentionally lost weight.[/b][/quote]

OP here, wish this was the case for me but it definitely isn't.  I'm wondering if this is just my new set point which is upsetting.  I am almost 40 pounds over my weight before I got pregnant.  I was eating a lot postpartum (PPD plus extreme breastfeeding hunger) to the point that I actually gained weight while baby was constantly nursing. For the past few months I have been working out (only 30 minutes 6 times per week so I could do more but it's hard with the baby) eating healthier with much smaller portions but I haven't even lost a pound. Maybe I need to start another thread about weight loss while breastfeeding![/quote]

I breast both my kids until about 15 months.  For me the benefits were:

1. Sleep — I nursed them to sleep until I weaned and I was terrified to try to get them down without a boob

2. Dishes/fuss — I hate washing bottles and didn’t want to worry about buying/preparing formula

3. Ease — I’d been breastfeeding and knew how to do it and didn’t want to switch things up

These are extremely personal and trivial benefits so if you want to switch, I think you should start trying formulas.  I will also note that I hung onto pregnancy weight while breastfeeding; once I stopped I immediately started going down again (still about 10 pounds above pregnancy weight because I’m neither nor exercising terribly well but definitely slimmer while I was nursing) even after I weaned my oldest when I was pregnant again.  So I hope that works for you too![/quote]

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