What do you think is the biggest barrier to breastfeeding In Australia?

[Ca Plane Pour Moi]

Gosh yes - midwives telling you that your baby is starving, give her formula or I'll take her away and do it (and yes, I have a son, but despite the blue decor the evil midwife kept calling DS "she") before the milk comes in should be shot! That's why DS was on formula and BM for 3 weeks.

But for night formula feeds, I was told (when my family were trying to bully me into FF my baby pre-birth) that it's easy because you make the bottle, sleep with it next to your skin so when baby wakes up it's the right temperature. (Yes, I do know that's very dangerous, but that's what a family member did and thought it was great to do.)

[Soph]

Ah I wish I had time to read all these posts...very interesting. I voted for health professionals eg MCHN - the number of times they have told me and other people to FF and especially to top up with FFs when weight gain is slow - I've lost count. It's crazy when you think that doing that usually means the beginning of the end for BF.....anyway I could go on forever here!

I too agree - I had #1 who wouldn't BF and I expressed for 8 weeks then FF and #2 who is still BF - wow BF is soooooooooooooooooooo much easier in terms of daily work and in the middle of the night!