FF is not a crime

[Bathsheba]

Ali, well I would have also received those exact same looks as I often took expressed breast milk and put it in a bottle to feed in public when attaching was too painful to do in public. So I think that FF mums really should try not take it too personally. ALL mothers are judged.


From my experience I've never heard a FF mum being judged in a negative sense, only if she cites an untruth such as "formula is better for my baby than my breast milk because it has more ingredients". I have never heard a FF mum criticised if BF was impossible. I would personally feel a bit sad for a baby if the mum could breast feed but chose not too, because for example; she thought it would make her breasts sag (a friend of my mothers stated this as a reason for not feeding) but even then I would not say anything even though she really should be corrected as BF doesn't make breasts sag, age and unsupportive bras do.

I agree Ali, people in the general public should not be so judgemental, but that's life and we are all affected. If it's not the way we feed it's every other aspect of parenting where there is more than one way of doing it.

I think it is better to raise your own self esteem rather than to demand the impossible, society is never going to change. However one thing that can and should be changed is misconceptions regarding breastfeeding.