Gawd, this whole thing, of antibreastfeeding advice being given out by so-called professionals, it's sickening how prevalent it is.

i've just been thru two weeks (in hospital - where women get sent for PND where i live) of being told by dietician, nurses, doctors, how irrelevant breastmilk is to my bub (cos she's over 12 months!!!!), and was stood over, WATCHED, to make sure i carried out their idea - to drop from 12 feeds a day (we were demand feeding) to 2 per day. It was sooo stressful to drop ten feeds in one day. Hours of bilby grabbing at my top (her sign for a boob feed), her crying and being so upset. She was so confused that suddenly her feeds went away.

i didn't know what to say, when surrounded by professionals who were so adamant my BM was not a good idea, i had no internet to google references, nothing in my memory to trot out - just a pit at the bottom of my stomach - "this doesn't sit right with me AT ALL". The one midwife there, who supposedly knew about bf-ing too, was telling me to put cow's milk in bilby's sippy cup! As if that was more nutriticious than my breastmilk. I have since found out, in countries where babies don't have access to cow's milk, they still get their iron in other ways.

Crazy thing is, i have a healthy looking bub too, and i think if Mateauz has The Cutest Butt, well then Bilby has the 2nd Cutest Baby Butt - such a biased mummy.

we are at home now, doing 4 - 6 feeds per day, as she needs. And the opposite of what i was told is happening, she is eating MORE solids than she did in hospital (when only having 2 feeds per day).

I was so scared i would lose my milk in there. There was no-one on staff that was pro-breastfeeding (for a baby over one year), despite their official policies saying they WERE pro-breastfeeding.

sorry to hijack your thread Maz, just makes me so cross, that misinformed "professionals" can have us mums doubting ourselves, feeling like we don't know what we're doing.

Like you, but for a different reason, i have had very strong reasons for wanting to make sure the breastfeeding DOES happen, it's a personal decision, i decided long ago, that is my legacy, my gift to my bub, the most valuable thing i can do for her.