The Man's eldest boy (not "the Boy"), but a spitting image, who turns 21 soon, and his lovely partner came to visit us yesterday and today with their almost two month old dd.

Their dd is exclusively formula fed (which is not my issue, each to their own, as long as babe is fed!), because Mum said that her milk didnt come in for a few days after the birth. I explained to her that it usually takes a couple of days, or three, and so forth. Going by what she said, NO ONE helped her to even TRY and bf bubs, from midwives to their mums.

I feel bad for this poor girl. And I am disgusted at the thought that no one (in the health profession) encouraged her or taught her anything about feeding. She seems disappointed and I can tell she is annoyed with the whole ff process (buying formula, washing bottles, etc, and even making sure they have enough made up for their outings). Further more, no one even told her that bottles are meant to be boiled/sterilised, and that the water used should be boiled/filtered, so for the first two weeks of bub's life, Mum didnt sterilise bottles or anything. She said to me it just occured to her in the middle of the night when she was making up a bottle for night feed, so she rang her mum in the morning who gave her the attitude of "of course you do you silly girl!". That said, I didnt sterilise bottles, but I made darn sure they were immaculately clean, and used only filtered water.

Sorry, I just can't beleive this!