I was SO naive before I have DS! My view was why the hell would you NOT bf....it's so good for the baby, so natural and of course so cheap! When I had DS and was having attachment problems and milk supply problems all this built up expectation just put me under pressure. The more stressed I was the worse things got, it was awful. The cause was a lack of education granted.....I will admit that. The midwives didn't have time to properly help me which meant they also had problems getting DS to attach which made me feel even more hopeless, if they couldn't do it how could I? The last straw was when I had cracked and bleeding nipples the lactation consultant finally came to see me and even SHE couldn't help DS and I to attach properly. That's when I kicked it in. I have no regrets at all, my children are happy, healthy and very bright children. I only have two 'issues' about my time bf:

1. I was not supported enough. Given the time and information I could have bf.

2. I was led to feel like a failure if I chose ff.

My firm belief now, bf is more than just physical, my body may have coped eventually but I couldn't. I felt so stressed and like the biggest failure. All my energy was going into trying to feed, thinking about feeding, when the most important thing was my new baby. I needed to put energy into him, and our new life.

The important thing is our babies, no one should feel judged about the way they feed their babies. I know if happens to both ff and bf, and it's so wrong!