To hate formula feeding?

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It’s not meant to be a BF vs FF thread. It’s just how I personally feel.

I hate the fact I’ve no easy, quick way of comforting my baby. I hate the fact that if I give him a bottle and he won’t go to sleep I have to wait hours until he’s hungry enough to accept another one. I hate worrying about his teeth. I hate the cost!

I know it suits some people and I’m not trying to suggest they are wrong. I personally hate it though.

[quote SarahAndQuack]@footprintsintheslow - oh, that makes more sense. Yes, when I first heard about it I thought it sounded great. And absolutely, I get that breastfeeding has a lot of challenges.

The more I looked into induced lactation the more it became clear to me it's sometimes a radically stupid, dangerous and pointless exercise. I don't really even think we should use the same term for someone who has a short break from breastfeeding then manages to start up again, and what you have to do when there's been much longer break - let alone, when a woman has never naturally lactated.

When I was looking at induced lactation, it terrified me how calmly people recommended injecting hormones over a long period - especially when you think that, in order to be prescribed the pill, a doctor has to explain the risks to you, and there's substantial ongoing debate about the rights and wrongs.[/quote]
I totally understand why you feel that way, induced lactation is not an easy or natural process. We don't use the same term for someone who has had a break from BF though; that's called relactation. I agree though that for a woman whose baby has never latched properly, the process will be more challenging certainly.

So as not to confuse matters for the OP though, IF she wanted to go down that route, it could be successful as long as her expectations were not too high. For example, if she'd like to start producing some/a little milk for purposes of allowing her baby to comfort suck and receive a little breastmilk. It's just an option.

I don’t think it would work at all here. I’m not convinced by it tbh. The time to breastfeed was when he was born.

Yes, you're definitely the right person to understand the best what would or wouldn't work with your own situation. Sorry if you've already explained and I've missed the post, but do you mind me asking why it didn't work out?