I've had 3 babies and have never taken formula to the hospital with me... My boys ended up formula fed due to various issues with breastfeeding but I always started them out on the boob. DD is still breastfeeding even though we are having many issues with her but I am stubborn and I will make it work with her. From what I have learnt that breastfeeding can be hard work to establish but once it is established it is so much easier than formula feeding. By the time my boys were 12 months old I was so over washing bottles, sterilising bottles, filling bottles.

Do what you want. If you want to succeed at breastfeeding, get yourself informed, join the ABA, find out if there are lactation specialists at the hospital or find out where private lactation consultants are in your area. Start going to the local ABA group. Get as much as support around you as you possibly can. Go to breastfeeding classes run buy your hospital. Ignore what everyone else says. My DH is telling me to give up with my daughter because we have so many issues but I won't. I know I can win this bottle.

My experience also is if formula is there it is so easy to use it when it gets a little tough so if you want to breastfeed don't take formula to the hospital, don't have it in the house. It takes away the temptation.