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Message: <blockquote data-quote="AloeSvea" data-source="post: 2274041" data-attributes="member: 150927">Greetings [USER=292050]@Lovinlife[/USER] - Congrats on your baby! I'm at the stage of life where I am waiting for my babies to have babies so I can enjoy babies again. But being a Great-Aunt has been fun. If you were my niece and actually asked my opinion on this subject, I would be in seventh heaven IRL <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" />.When it comes to working out risk - I suggest you go online and seek out the breastfeeding and non-human milk studies with reference to type 1 risk, and wade through the data to find the risk factors, or you may be lucky and you find the best study for you to look at right away in a search? It can be quite time consuming, such a search, but really is the only way to satisfy risk percentage desires - if you read and weigh up the different studies and sources yourself? Is my humble opinion.There is quite a lot, I believe, about future increased risk with type 2, from memory, as I tease my own elderly mother about this - I was breastfed the least, and have had problems with sick fat cells and insulin resistance and then type 2 that my older more breastfed siblings have not (but don't worry she can take the teasing!) I don't know about type 1 risk, but I guess it is related to what having milk proteins better suited to other mammals can do to the immune system? (It may be 'very little'!)  And then there is the soy, if you are using soy non-human milk products for feeding your baby.Regarding the mastitis - I have enormous sympathy - ghastly thing. Have you had advice from breastfeeding specialists? As mastitis is usually from what is called a latch-on issue, as in your baby might not be 'latching on' to your nipple properly? I had this issue also with my first born. Seeing properly latched-on babies is not something we are brought up with as a rule, in a way it would have been common place in earlier times. I had to learn to do it properly too, but once learnt (as in both you and your baby) it is a physical skill never lost, and with enormous nutritional benefits for the baby.  And I would say - health protective benefits. No scientist or health professional or nutritionist seems to deny this. They can't. (I also liked the bonding aspect of breastfeeding - being so close to your baby, and being forced to sit and relax, and talking with folks, reading or watching TV or eating and drinking myself at the same time. Very relaxing in a not relaxing time of life - with a baby!)Fair enough if you have decided to not breastfeed - no-one but no-one can tell another person what to do with their body, absolutely. (And especially not Great Aunts! <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />.) It is an extremely personal experience and decision. This is ultimately about you and your baby, and for you alone to decide. But I would hate to think you gave up breastfeeding for want of good hands-on (literally) advice about latching on. La Leche Leagues around the world are marvellous should you choose to get hands-on help! Or other organisations and professionals, depending on your country.</blockquote>

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