I breastfed my daughter for 4 years and 8 months...I breastfed my son for 3 years 9 months.

I exposed both of them to chicken pox (because I did not want them to get the vaccine) 5 different times...the first 4 exposures did nothing...finally on the 5th exposure at 9 years and 12 years of age they both got them.  Our daughter got them first...and then our son got them(so technically his may have been from her, making his a 6th exposure). 

I always believed that the difficulty of getting them to "catch" chicken pox  had something to do with our long duration in breastfeeding and my immunity to chicken pox.  

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