To say BF Mums shouldn't be getting fed if...

[daydrinker]

IF FF Mums aren't?

My local hospital always feeds the BF mums but leaves the FF ones. They have to sort themselves out.

I've been to the local hospital a good few times now with DS and always asked within an hour if I want food

If overnight stay, I'm fed 3 times a day with biscuits and tea in between. Formula feeding mums aren't offered anything.

AIBU to say this isn't fair?

My milk supply doesn't all of a sudden vanish if I'm hungry.

I think all mums with babies in hospital should be fed although I appreciate the risk of dehydration for bf mums. It is just unkind, unjust and penny pinching not to feed all mums, whether breast or formula feeding. BTW it's a long long time since my own bf days!

I think that a single carer with a baby should be fed. The carer may be a father (the mother may be in hospital elsewhere/looking after the other kids/left/died) or an adopted parent. They shouldn't be discriminated against either.

I don’t know what’s right and wrong in this situation, but I do know having struggled and failed at exclusively breastfeeding, this would have made me feel even shitter than I do at my baby being formula fed. It is my biggest failure at life and it seems there is blow after blow.

And it all seems lip service anyway, when I struggled the NHS was absolutely useless, no help whatsoever.

If there isn't the money then fine but because it might hurt someone elses feelings because of their own choices...sod that for a reason, its a terrible one.

This infuriates me. It was NEVER my choice to formula feed. The fact that I do depresses the hell out of me and I hate it. Breastfeeding doesn’t always work for everyone no matter how hard they try.