That's the modern attitude to motherhood, we can't do anything right. E.g. Some people say that if you don't use CC, your baby will never learn good sleep habits but on the other hand if you leave you baby to cry then you risk them being damaged. No win for mummy!

Yup, that sounds like a family friendly site where the age limit of 13 is perfectly ok!! Ummm... not.

Anyhoo, sorry to be OT

FB are on their way out, fear not. It's turning into a playground for drama queens to vent about their boring lives, perverts to add people and chat them up and generally becoming just like myspace which is now just full of saddos for meeting up for a shag. Nice.

Agree with other poster, Follow On Milk is just there to allow the companies to advertise their products. I FF and I won't be switching to any other milk. Stage 1 milk is all that's needed - not stage 2, 3 or follow on.
I do agree that the tone of 'if you decide to move on from BFing...' implies when - I think they have to mention BFing by law and that's the only way they could think of to get it in.
I would hope that any BFing moms wouldn't be swayed by an add such as this.

I agree.
I was so adamant about bfing. After Ethan wouldn't latch I agreed to express. That, it seemed, was that. I got no further help, apart from being shown where the breast pump was (not even encouraged to express). Obviously they'd ticked their box about 'supporting me to bf' and decided that I'd failed and they'd given me the info about the next best step and left me to get on with it. Coupled with the fact that Ethan was prem and they told me not to pick him up at all as he needed the heated matress, and that they told me he needed bottle feeding so that they could keep track of what he was having... Needless to say, even after asking 2 midwives once at home who gave conflicting advice, and numerous atempts, it was too late to bf (for many reasons). I did continue to express though, so at least he had my milk.
Of course, back home withouth the worry and shock of a prem to cloud me, i should've put my foot down about bfing.
As it goes, Ethan is doing brilliantly on formula. He had my mik for his first 6 weeks mixed in with formula (my supply never got up enough) and actually, in my circumstances, it was a bloomin good job that formula was there to feed Ethan, as I couldn't It has it's uses, does a bloody good job. I do think some BFers put FF moms underneath that same 'evil can't be bothered' umberella, but often it's a complicated/difficult/upsetting decision

i read somewhere today that a formula company is making breastfeeding kits with formula samples in them! cant be in UK must be in America I think. Full of coupons for money off formula. Wish they wouldnt pretend to promote breastfeeding the bottom line is that it looses them money so they hand out formula to breastfeeding mums in hope they will fail.

more about that: http://www.phdinparenting.com/2009/05/04/sabotage/

it also talks about googling "breastfeeding support" and formula advertisements popping up.

think thats what it was i was reading, i glanced at it in between running about after a toddler. I did noticed formula comes up when breastfeeding info is searched for, *raises eye brow* .

I will agree to disagree with a lot of posts on here...

Hi hun, sorry I didn't answer your question. I think it is a combination of his family's attitudes and how they did things but also that he sees it takes longer than giving a bottle so is somewhat more inconvenient. Of course, he's not factored in the time it would take to mix up formula though. I do get guilty sometimes as I still feed LO before his bedtime so he doesn't get a chance to put him to bed as often as me. Also, he has a dreamfeed about 11pm so it can interfere with our personal time iykwim. Things have been a bit quiet the last few days though, I've encouraged him to do a bottle of EBM at bedtime some nights and also have brought the dreamfeed forward half an hour and he hasn't commented again the last few days so we are in a period of relative calm again!... and yay we have made it to 7 months of breastfeeding today!