As someone who feels like they were a little girls just yesterday (not really but I'm still young at heart), I have no problem with littlies bottle feeding their dollies, I bottle fed my dollies and its not something thats going to influence my feeding choices as a mother. It's a difficult discussion I guess as to how do we normalise breastfeeding. I think my main influence behind choosing to breastfeed comes from being a nurse myself and having a sister who's a midwife and absolutely drums it into me. Maybe if they looked more into it in health and PE classes and discussed it more then thats something that would help... I can never remember going through that in highschool or primary school... mainly just uni. I know of a few mums who decided to bottle feed because "breastfeeding hurt" and whatever other excuse that could be found... maybe if they had more education and support around breastfeeding in their younger days that would have changed the way they coped with it.
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