Did you ever regret formula feeding from birth?

I think you missed the part where I said everyone I KNOW. Family members, my close female friends, like actual loved ones. They've all had struggles, sorry that bothers you.

Instead of being bothered that you and friends have had positive experiences and taking it personally, I'm very happy for you and your friends. Congratulations! Wish it was the same for my loved ones and not an ongoing shitshow it has been for some. My formula feeding loved ones have all had positive experiences except for one actually (but their child had milk allergy and an autoimmune disease found later on in life ) but it settled once Dr's figured stuff out.

What you do, or do not, is frankly of no interest to me. Slag off what you want or who you want too, again, not my problem, I dont know you (and don't want to know you). I'd like to be left out of it though! Thanks.

I'm very happy for you and your friends having a positive breast feeding experience, maybe op would like to know if you think about the positive breast feeding experience on a regular basis.
Then she can weigh up what's best for her. Maybe ask OP if she'd like to hear your and your friends positive breast feeding experiences.

No. Loved the ease of bottle feeding and people could help feed them - win win!

Agree. I don't see the need to speak for and about other women's experiences in an otherwise positive thread.

Only managed a couple of weeks breast feeding / pumping with DD16 and that was supplementing with formula from day 2.

She’s now a straight A student, we’re super close and she’s only had a few days ill in her life. Beat myself up about it at the time with all the pressure of not doing the best thing for my baby but looking back that was needless. No regrets at all now.

Boobs never worked despite being massive, didn’t have any milk come in. I think it was shock due to very long labour/emergency c section and then she was in SCBU that caused it.

I did feel awful about it for a little while but tbh was just grateful neither of us was dead and I was just try to survive afterwards. I don’t think I could have dealt with something else going to spectacularly wrong. She’s 22 now has always been disgustingly healthy and absolutely fine so no regrets.

Nope never once have I regretted bottle feeding from birth. I tried to breastfeeding dc1 and he wouldn't latch on. Dc2 was a SCBU baby, he was tube fed initially and I tried everything to latch on. Eventually a lovely scbu nurse who tried to help pointed out he wasnt able to home till he was feeding properly so I put him on the bottle and he took to it immediately. Dc3 got put on a bottle straight after birth. He loved his birth and drank double the average of a newborn and was so much more content.

No regrets.
I beat myself up badly at the time but with the benefit of hindsight it simply does not matter.

I never tried for no reason other than I didn't want to and I reasoned that given noone would be able to tell at preschool if he was breastfed or not, it wasn't important enough to me to try.

I loved formula feeding. I did it from birth.

So easy, my big baby was never hungry and my husband and I shared feeding and night shifts from day one of being at home.

Such a lovely easy experience, baby slept like a dream, we were all so chilled and happy.

You know you can advocate for formula feeding without making huge, frankly rude, generalisations about breastfeeding mothers and babies. I found breastfeeding a really positive experience as did the vast majority of my friends. I don't go around slagging off women who formula feed and claiming there is something wrong with their children's attachment.

Sorry to derail your thread OP and good luck with whatever you decide to do.
I just get fed up of the crap people say about breastfeeding on these things.

Trying to breastfeed spoiled my early days with DD1. Dd2 and 3 were bottle fed from the start. Although interestingly both their discharge forms were marked as breastfeeding.

Nope, never!
I never wanted to breast feed either if my kids. In fact the very thought of it made me cringe! They were both bottle fed right from the start, nobody ever put me down about it or tried to persuade me to do otherwise. Babies fed well, and slept through the night from 6 and 10 weeks respectively. They're now 27 and 22, healthy and happy!

Two kids both bottle fed, no attachment issues, unless I got blessed by two amazing easy going kids - maybe the fact they weren't attached to me 24/7 meant they thrived?
I was also major relaxed, kids fed by various family members.

They're almost 11 and 9 - not once have I thought about the fact I bottle fed, definitely not something that crosses my mind ever. Very independent, happy, minimal if any behaviour issues.

I find everyone I know that bf had issues be it the mums with stress and that or the kids with attachment/behaviour. This is just my personal experience, I'm almost sure there's some bf unicorn mum here to tell me that they've bf 8 kids and have perfect life 😂

Bottle feed if you want to op and live your best life! Do what you want to do.

Simple and effective!

Not for a second. Tried for about 10 days, midwife instructed DH to go to Boots there and then for formula. Wish I’d changed earlier. Every intention for subsequent DCs to be straight on bottles. Don’t beat yourself up.

Guilt yes but no regrets, not now. I found it such an incredibly painful experience and it was making me so depressed. I felt so pressurised by my midwife to push through the pain and not give up and I started to dread the whole thing then one day the midwife came with another midwife, this wonderful woman took me in another room and said that she could see how miserable I looked and although she wasn't supposed to say it she recommended that I turn to formula, that day felt like a weight had been lifted off my post natal depressed shoulders. I became a happy mum and was really able to enjoy my baby.

Two years later I had my DD and tried again but it was too uncomfortable so I gave up and had no regrets.

They are 20 and 17 now and very happy.

I BFd my kids and the second one wouldn’t take a bottle for the combi feeding I’d done with my first.

I basically did everything - every feed, burp, sorting out spit up blah blah

I regret not going straight to bottle feeding.

Not at all
Fed is best! Xx

How about see how it goes? I ff both my sons. I so wanted to be able to do it and it didn’t work out and then I felt like a failure etc and that spoiled some of my early memories of my eldest. And the guilt!

with my second I was able to breastfeed at the hospital but after a week my milk hadn’t come in and we were all miserable. So I went to ff as i told myself - this is my last baby and I will not spend time beating myself up if breastfeeding isn’t working out. 2nd baby loved his bottles and was sleeping long stretches quickly. I know people will say that is luck etc - don’t car it worked for us

No why would you??
by age 3 at the bare minimum, how you fed them is a very distant memory. I tried with my first and it was hell. Didn’t even realise about the pumping and round the clock job this was, not to mention it’s 100% down to you so you are tied to the baby 24/7.

For my second, straight to formula. Saved myself a whole lot of mh sanity. Now they are older, it made not one tiny ounce of difference to their health and wellbeing.

If you want to formula feed then that is a decision you have made and should be fine with.

However, it doesn’t actually sound like that’s what you want.

When I had my second baby I was prepared and I knew breastfeeding wasn’t likely to be easy (in fact I never mastered it.) I really didn’t want to buy formula to take into the hospital though; it felt like giving up before I started. As it was I expressed milk for DD but it’s a lot of work.

Tbh I never really enjoyed breastfeeding but did so for 2/3 weeks as I felt it was important for the baby to get the colostrum. I then exclusively formula fed and never regretted it. It also meant my husband could share the feeding.

No.
I BF’d DD1 for about 7 weeks then stopped when I had to have a breast abcess drained in hospital under GA.
That put me off BFing so I FF DD2 from the start.
Both were very healthy babies and now adults.

I EBF because I preferred it but honestly it's one of those things that really doesnt matter in the grand scheme of things. I was FF and I in no way wish I was BF