Breastfeeding is best?

Its ok to choose not to? You are entitled to your opinion but there's no need to attack others who don't share it with you. Fed is best is true especially if Mum's mental health is at risk. Nobody is demeaning breastfeeding by saying fed is best.

A tale as old as time. It’s either deep rooted misogyny in women or jealousy. I said what I said and I stick by it. As a woman, if you cannot accept and appreciate that another woman has poured literal blood sweat and tears into feeding their child and instead want to make it about yourself or diminish how hard breastfeeding truly is, then you’re weird.

Fed is bare minimum. Breastmilk has been proven time and time again to be superior but that doesn’t make women who cannot physically breastfeed their children bad people.

People nowadays are offended by facts but that’s just the world we live in. Facts don’t care about people’s feelings lmao.

There’s some very bitter and uneducated women around! I think we should start teaching about biology in schools again.

You’re so funny … 🤣 ! Such a hypocrite ..

**no ill intent in this comment**

I’ve been EBF for 5 months and it is sooo hard and has taken a toll on my mental health at different times, but I chose to keep going.. I really understand and appreciate why some people stop (varying reasons).

Breast feeding is something I REALLY wanted to do, not everyone can/wants to and that’s why we are blessed to have choice ☺️

I see and hear you mama that posted this, it is hard and sometimes I also feel like sometimes people (mainly my husband and brothers etc) don’t understand how hard it is - but also, I chose this😅

Controversially, breastfeeding isn’t something I wanted to do. It just kinda happened when the midwives put baby on my boob and 16 months later were still breastfeeding BUT I agree, fed is best. It’s no one’s business what other people do. The saying goes “in a classroom full of children, you can’t tell which ones were breastfed but you tell which one were read to.” No one is saying breastfeeding is easy. As others have said, it’s ok to choose not to. It isn’t illegal to not breastfeed 😅

I found breastfeeding so easy my milk dropped after having to go hospital at 8weeks and unfortunately couldn’t anymore as there wasn’t enough and as baby was getting topped up with formula it just kept dropping would get nothing out of pumping after buying countless breast pumps to establish supply if I could still breastfeed i absolutely would me and baby both enjoyed it and I felt proud of myself for doing it but formula I find is harder expensive and takes up so much time washing sterilising etc than breastfeeding I recently tried to see if baby woukd latch and now that he has teeth he is biting and it hurts so bad! So to the mums who breastfeed past 5mo well done because the pain of getting bitten is awful and totally put me off even trying again

I ‘couldn’t’ breastfeed my twins - broke my heart however this time around I was equipped with an incredible amount of information and support through the breastfeeding specialists and have exclusively breastfed this time around. Previously I did believe ‘fed is best’ however after all the research i know now breast is always best. Hardest bloody thing you’ll ever do but absolutely incredible. I think more women need to be better supported as it’s not easy when you don’t know how. Moving forward I personally would never give formula to my babies however I don’t judge others for how they feed their children or anything else for that matter we’re all just trying to survive most of the time 🤣❤️

You can celebrate yourself without tearing others down. Who cares if someone else could, couldn't, chose not to, whatever. The vast majority of people know that breastfeeding has more benefits than formula feeding. But that doesn't mean that formula feeding is in any way wrong or bad. I breastfed for over 2 years. The first 3/4 months of that there was a cloud over me. My daughter had an operation at 1 day old and I felt like breastfeeding was the only thing I could do for her. I killed myself and tanked my mental health pumping to bring in supply, keep my supply and continue to feed her. If I could go back I would tell myself it was OK to look at other options. It was OK to prioritise my mental health, happiness and enjoyment of motherhood. If there wasn't so much pressure to breastfeed I would likely have been kinder to myself and combi fed/given up pumping. And that would have been an absolutely valid choice.

The thing is, I don’t necessarily disagree with the premise of what you’re saying however, it’s this attitude that you are putting out there that is the reason why formula mums get defensive over breastfeeding posts.
They feel they have to justify why they didn’t breastfeed.