Bottle Feeding

I have a few friends around my age who have had or are having babies and a lot of them are surprised I'm breast feeding. I get shocked expressions like - Don't you want to drink? Don't you want to go to parties? But if you BF you can't hand baby off to your family.
I know this isn't the way all younger mums feel but I was amazed at how many thought like that. But each to their own I surpose. I want to BF but then again I've never tried it before so who knows if it's going to suit me or bubs. It's just a big waiting game

BabyOnBoard... there's always expressed mummy's milk for occasions, or some people even do that when they return to work.

NOt quite what you are wanting but here's my recent experience. I had my little boy 10 days ago and my milk has not come in properly. We were supplementing with formula and now I have decided to just express milk for him and top him up with formula as when he was on the breast he wasn't getting very much at all (judged by me expressing afterwards to encourage supply). My MW has been really supportive but it is ME who is a mess - I never thought I would feel so bad/upset/like a failure about BF. She also told me the herbal ways to increase milk flow and has given me a script for medicine - I have my fingers crossed it will increase as I would like to give it another go when he will actually get something..
It was a really hard decision to give him formula the first time when he was only 4 days old but he was feeding for hours (but not!) and it has been the best thing for him - now Mummy just needs to work out how to prepare 1 or 2 bottles, feed, express and get him down within a reasonable amount of time!
Oh and might I just say that because everyone says "Breast is Best" you don't really hear of that many people going the bottle route - it is quite nice for mothers to have support for this choice too (since there's plenty for BF)

Hey Faraway
I feel for you, I have just stopped expressing after doing it for four and half months to establish a 50/50 feeding regime for Fay, i will bump a thread I started in the Baby thread for you with lots of support and advice I recieved when I was in the same place as you. I felt and still feel so guilty for not being able to feed Fay fulltime and directly, I am finding it hard a the moment as I have only recently gone on to fulltime formula, I thought I had done all my rationalising when she was 6 weeks old, but all those old feelings hasve resurfaced recently since I stopped giving her breastmilk. Also strongly reccommend the book Bottle Babies, I got it from the library, its by someone Ferguson
Take Care
Claire