God some women can be bitchy. You participate in a discussion about breast or bottle, and end up being told you need therapy for finding comments like "wouldn't be right to feed them from a can" as completely unacceptable. If it was the other way around, and I was telling a woman planning to breast feed that she was making a mistake I would be tarred and feathered. But it's completely acceptable to judge a woman for deciding not to breast feed.
I can't do it. I tried and my daughter lost almost 40% of her birth weight. It took over 3 months to get her back to her birth weight in the end, and a lot of tears and guilt before I was prepared to allow myself to use formula. And still today I have idiot medical professinoals trying to tell me that she wouldn't have her immunity problems if she'd been breastfed "like she should have been". What a joke!
Woman should be supported in what ever decision they make. Maybe it's time someone started a support group for non breast feeding women... share some of the respect that the breast feeders get!
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