Have you contacted your hospital to tell them you were disappointed with their breastfeeding support?

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If not, why not?

If you are unhappy with the support you received then you should complain. Look at it this way, ok it won't change the bad experience you've received but it might just help other women. I would if I felt negative about my support, as it is my hospital was pretty good - it's the doctors I've seen since that have shown ambivalence to bf but that's another story (doesn't matter to me as my bf is now well established)

Imo all babies have a right to be breastfed and if we can help more women by making the hospital/community mw/ hv know there is room for improvement so much the better. If other women can keep it up for 1 month, 1 week whatever, that's better than nothing.

(Funny I didn't really have much of an opionion about bf before my dd was born, now I can't imagine doing it any other way)

admittedly i had only intended to breastfeed for the first cou[ple of monthsa nyway, but i blame my hospital for me failing to ever do it.
i had retained placenta and ended up spending two hours in theatre, then the recovery room where the baby wasn't allowed. while i was in there the midwife had handed dp a bottle of formula, which he fed to ds without even thinking, he was in a pretty overwhelmed state o mind, and didnt think too much about it. then they kicked dp out as it was 'quiet time' on the ward, and i fell asleep. i woke up about four hours later and the mw came round and said they had given ds two more bottles, as they didn't want to wake me.
my spinal block took a further two hours to wear off during which time i pressed the buzzer repeatedly as i knew ds would need his nappy changing but noone came and i couldn't reach him or the nappies to do it myself. when my mum arrived she was horrified as his nappy was overflowing with meconium which had all hardened.
don't know if its my fault, but there really was nothing i could do.
after that he refused to latch on, and having no support i just gave up and he has been formula fed since.
i am planning to complain to the hospital as that was only one of many problems i experienced there.

I didn't when DS was born, but this time around, if there is a lack of support or rudeness, then I'll be a LOT more vocal. It makes me so angry that I just sat there blaming myself for my inability to get DS to latch, and nobody did or said anything to help. I honestly thought the problem was that I was too fat and my breasts were too large.