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Posted: 29 August 2007 at 9:50pm | IP Logged

oooo cringe at the thought but my mum fed me and my sister...ewww shivers just thinking about it lol.

Had bouts of depression, but its usually had to be something major that sparks it off.  First time was when i was 14, the next was when i was 19 then when ex tried to take tasja away from me, and then when i lost the plot as joe was away all the time..i soon bounce back though.

Posted: 30 August 2007 at 11:17am | IP Logged

I wasn't breast fed had not hads a issue with depression.

Both Jess and Ella have been breastfed and are happy and content children.

Jess is very quick to get over a prolem and does not dwell on things. So hopefully this is a good sign.

Ella really is to young to say much about exceot she is very happy and smiley and soon is cheered up when she does become upset.

Posted: 01 September 2007 at 9:44am | IP Logged

i was never breastfed i've never had any form of depression

my sister wasn't breastfed and shes suffered for years

my mum couldn't feed us as she was unwell herself

my mum was bf and has had depression, her sister was also bf but hasn't had depression

lily wasn't bf as i chose not to bf and she so far appears chilled out and relaxed

i cant see a pattern emerging!

Posted: 02 September 2007 at 4:10pm | IP Logged

Nor can I!

There needs to be proper professional world wide study on strict 100% breastfed babies & strict 100% formula fed babies to make a more accurate assessment on whether the different milk types cow or human, does or can increase the likelyhood of humans getting mental healths problems. 

Posted: 02 September 2007 at 5:02pm | IP Logged

That's the problem with statistics. You could make any point by using them, but it doesn't actually mean anything. For instance, say that more people born on a tuesday are involved in road accidents than any other day. (statistically there is bound to be one day that crops up more often than others, tuesday is a random example) This doesn't actually mean that just because you happen to be born on a tuesday you will be more likely to be involved in a road accident, and nor is there any reason why tuesday babies should be involved more than any others, but that wouldn't alter the first statistic. It's just the way it happens to work out. The fact is that we do not live in a world that can be ordered and predicted the way statisticians would like, there are always anomolies and exceptions that cannot be explained.

Take smoking, we all know that this causes cancer, yet there are plenty of people who have never smoked who have cancer, and quite a few very old but healthy people who have smoked more than 20 a day for 40 years or more. 'Statistics' cannot explain this, any more than they can explain why some bf babies still have a poorly start to life and some bottle fed babies thrive and grow into completely healthy adults. It also doesn't change the facts that we know that smoking is very bad for you, and breastfeeding is very good for babies, it just means that statistics are a pile of crap!

I hate statisticians trying to 'prove' things with the statistics they drag together, this is a real bugbear of mine. Sorry. I'll shut up now.