Society and BF makes me angry

All my kids have been formula feed and so will the twins. I can BF but chose not to...my choice. I saw the hospital Midwife on Tuesday and she asked if I was going to BF and I said no, FF. Her reply was 'so you are going to artificially feed them'. I decided to let the comment go even though it really annoyed me.

I don't think it matters if you want to BF and can't or decide to just do FF....there should be information available to you and you should be able to feel confident with your decision.

...you can do that damage with a breast pump in desperation to extract more too! Now doesn't it just stink that we should even know this!

I hear you on the lack of info - best advice I was given about FF is to contact the formula company with all your questions - they're apparently usually very helpful and informative. The company that manufactures Ella's stuff have been awesome when it comes to answering questions and giving out info. I used to get a little worked up about the whole 'breast is best' campaign (and this was when I was still BFing my daughter, but it was going very badly), until someone explained to me that formula companies have multi-millions of $$ behind them, and if they were allowed to campaign away freely in NZ, we'd be bombarded with so much more info on FF, free samples, etc, that BF would slip under the radar - Formula would be well advertised, but where's the huge budget for advertising Breastmilk going to come from? Taxpayers. Not ideal.

I'd love to see info given about BF AND FF at antenatal classes and through Plunket - at least that way both methods could be taught. The lack of info available about bottle-feeding (unless you know where to ask for it and do so) is dangerous, if you ask me.

ok...this you guys will find interesting!

Extract from the latest "New Babies Club" letter from NW.

" In our survey last year lots of people asked for more promotions on baby formula. We wanted to clarify our position of not price promoting infant formula for babies aged 0-6months as we abide by the WHO code guidelines, which aims to protect the nutritional wellbeing of infants by encouraging breastfeeding. www.who.int "

I am so sorry to hear that so many of you have had to deal with over-enthusiastic opinionated nosie people while trying to feed your children!! I'm soon to be a mom and very excited about it, My sister had issues with BF in the states and has given me all sorts of info I'm hoping I can BF but the most importaint is bubs. to you all thanks for sharing