I coudln't vote here because my reason was medication - unless you classify that as medical intervention? But I take that as being "advised not to" by medical professionals where as after colustrom I had to stop.

Just remember, as Caro said, not everyone can breastfeed and there was a story on "What's good for you" about it a while ago and the main reason for not breastfeeding was health/medications. Just because some of us FF doesn't mean we gave up too early or just wanted to. All my SILs BF and they now understand why I couldn't - they never gave me a hard time about it and that was a relief!

Besides I have friends who BF and FF - one in particular used Formula overnight to help her baby sleep longer and she said it worked for her.

Saying that - I read articles about breast milk banks and think it would be good to have breast milk accessible to every mother who can't BF. I think that would be rather expensive though!

Congrats Kelly on your Pariliamentary submission and hope all goes well.