I'm not sure if this is in the wrong place so apologies if it is.
So today I was mum shamed for bottle feeding my DS. I was on a bench outside my local Tesco feeding him while an elderly lady set next to me. We were having polite chit chat, how old your baby is...yada yada... What she just blurted out something along the lines of 'if you bottle feed him, it'll damage his brain and he won't achieve anything in his life' I didn't know what to say to this lady. I just nodded in stunned silence.
I appreciate that breastfeeding is the best for your baby but what she doesn't know is that my DS has issues with latching onto my breast making breast feeding nearly impossible. I have instead been expressing breast milk and giving that to him in a bottle.
I don't know what I really wanted from this thread apart from venting as it's been circling in my head since this morning.
Has anyone else been mum shamed for something completely absurd?
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crushedstrawberries · 18/11/2018 20:29
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