To be annoyed at Boots or at least the lady who works there

[Chocoholism]

Buying some cow and gate stage 1 formula for my 6 month old and asked if I could pay with points on my advantage card, her response was no you can't as we like to promote breastfeeding.
Err how does giving points or redeeming points when buying a stage 1 formula affect a decision on whether to breast feed or not? And also I could've adhered to doh guidelines and bf to 6 months and then changed to formula.
Is this a silly rule? The amount of milk we get through, and the money I give to boots makes me feel like I am as entitled to receive points as much as anyone else for any other products.

flefdr you clearly missed my posts. My HV and the NCT feeding counsellor refused to give me advice when I asked.

Bf was not working and the useless HV knew I would be going back to work full-time. She refused to give any advice other than suggesting I could express milk for when I was at work.

I actually showed her the bottle of the pitiful amount I could express- still no help.

What really annoys me is I thought I had to let this stupid woman into my house. I wish I'd told her to get lost.

What information did you want about formula feeding that wasn't on the tub - it tells you preparation, amounts etc. And not with internet access more indepth information is readily available.

I'm sorry, I just fail to see what is so hard about formula - make bottle, feed baby, clean bottle.

Part of the HV's role is to support safe formula feeding. If an HV refuses to do that I would complain.

I wanted to know how to make the switch from bf to ff as (a) bf wasn't working and (b) she knew I was going back to work full time. She wouldn't tell me.

That is not information found on the ff tin.

fledr I have already said this was in the 90s. The internet did not exist. Yes this was a long time ago and probably all irrelevant now but those 2 women made my life as a new mother more difficult than it should have been.

Explaining how to introduce formula to a baby who was exclusively bf was, I'm sure now, within her remit but she chose not to help.

I wanted to know about switching formulas because the formula I was on was making DD constipated. The internet was unreliable - all these sources saying different things. A little bit of reassurance that I was doing it right, and not doing a bad thing for my DD by switching to formula.

To add in, also issues with different bottles. As I had intended to bf, when it was clear my baby needed formula topups, we got Tommee tippee bottles in. Well the teats kept collapsing and the baby got awful wind. I had to contact my
Ff friends to get advice and ended up using Dr Browns. I was appalled at the lack of support available to women at such a vulnerable time. Surely the priority is that the baby is FED.
And as for make bottle, stick bottle in baby's gob... Can you imagine if someone said as a pp has said, to a bf mum, just stick a boob in their mouth and let them suck?! Ha!!!!