Is the question really about being supported, or having the confidence in the decisions we make? If we are confident and comfortable in the decisions we make, which we know are best for our family, then who gives a RATS what anyone else thinks? Unfortunatley no one can make our decisions for us, so we just have to look at ourselves and our own families and decide for ourselves. My MCHN, who is also a lactation consultant, said the best thing she ever could to me when I had decided to stop BF, and that was "in an ideal world we would all BF beyond 12 months, but we don't live in an ideal world, and we all have other things going on in our lives, so we have to do what is best for us, for our baby and our family".

The problem with advice is that we usually get the advice we ask for, so like Trillian said, if you go into a BF forum asking for advice and support and breast feeding- then that is what you are going to get. No-one in a virtual world is going to know what is going on behind the scences.

For me personally, while I struggled with the initial decision to to switch to FF, after that I was at peace with it. At the end of the day, not one person here lives in my house, walks in my shoes or knows my family, so while I will listen to advice if I ask for it, I am not going to loose sleep over the opposing opinions to my own.