It's more complicated that breast or bottle isn't it?

[LaDiDaDi]

The deleted thread just got me thinking about the different ways you could group mum's according to how they are feeding:

1. Breastfeeding with brilliant ease and tell everyuone and anyone how fab it is and how rubbish formula is.

2. Breastfeeding happily and successfully with encouragement to other mums to do the same.

3. Persevering with breastfeeding despite problems either personal or physical.

4. Breastfeeding unhappily out of peer pressure.

5. Mix feeding out of personal choice.

6. Mix feeding because of circumstance.

7. Formula feeding and sad after having tried to breastfeed.

8. Formula feeding and relieved/happy after having tried to breastfeed as had never felt positively about breastfeeding in the first place.

9. Formula feeding having never wanted/tried to breastfeed and happy with their choice.

10. Formula feeding and making annoying negative comments to mum's who do breastfeed.

Can anyone think of anymore?
I suppose I'm just trying to make the point that breastfeeders and formulafeeders are all different.

i think you need to add one to the top

1a. bf mum who tells formula feeders they are lazy and didnt try hard enough.

i have had this soo much.. and being a mum that tried HARD to get my ds to feed, gave up following advise from h/v

sorry cat walked on keyboard...

as i was saying having tried hard with my ds i felt so crap as a mother because of these comments.

Natty, I'm so sorry to hear that, must be so irritating

It seems like such an odd thing to say anyway - surely bottle feeding is much more hassle than breastfeeding? I'm sure that if the choice was simply down to "laziness", plenty more people would breastfeed.