I had a terrible time in hospital and most of the midwives there were useless. I was regularly told/offered formula when I asked for help breast feeding and received very little help getting my baby to latch on. Despite the fact that the hospital was UNICEF approved. I felt like I was treated like a lunatic and a fascist for wanting to BF. Fortunately (and no thanks to them) I have managed to carry on and am still EBF at 5 1/2 months and long may it continue. Although I believe that had I not gone into hospital determined to breast feed, and out of 5 people I went to my antenatal classes with (who wanted to BF) I am the only one who succeeded.
I have just been reading about the WHO code on breast feeding. One of the points of the code is that free or discounted samples of formula should not be given to mothers. As supplementing with formula has an adverse effect on a woman's supply. The hospital I went to had packs of bottles of formula that you could help yourself too. And a cupboard of every type of formula which you could prepare yourself. When asked the midwives handed out these bottles (with pre steralised teats) like hot cakes.
Is this against the code? And did anyone else have issues like this in hospital