"you are just lucky... my milk dried up at 4 weeks! nothing i could do!" VENT

[Sonny]

Sorry yeah I should have made it clearer that, I'm very grateful, that in our day and age we do have the very safe alternative to breastfeeding and that there is definitely a group of women that either choose to bottle feed or have tried everything and are just at the end of the road and their nerves, I agree that there is not much sense in persisting past this point.
The point i was trying to make is that with formula and a lack of knowledge about bf and support with problems, the impression that successful bf is purely luck seems to becomes the general opinion...
... and to your comment yes it is this basic ... baby sucks on boob enough = milk .... never said it was easy

This is my experience of 8 months which weren't always easy ... but totally worth it ...

[~Hestia~]

... and to your comment yes it is this basic ... baby sucks on boob enough = milk .... never said it was easy

I don't agree.

[Kazmar]

Honestly as mummys we know that breast milk is best. The thing is, its not always achieveable. With the right education and support then the % of bf bubs would be much higher. Also the alternative is formula atm, hopefully one day there will be enough bm to go around

I dont think its as clean cut as you have worded it to be.

But I do believe more needs to be done to up the % of breastfed babies.