Do You Feel Embarrassed Buying Formula?

[Quootiepie]

I was just wondering really. Since stopping BFing and going to formula, I find myself being embarrassed buying it . I sort of look left and right before I grab it off the shelf, and will the conveyor belt to move faster when I am buying it! I feel so stupid feeling like this, because I know the reasons behind it, but stupid as it sounds I worry sometimes people are looking down on me, especially being young.

Am I the only one? It is quite pathetic, I know but was curious. xXx

Sometimes your shoot from the hip style is just plain rude.

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Please don't waste time worrying about this

I never felt embarrassed buying formula for dd2. BF dd1 but dd2 had brochiolitus over the millenium and had to be fed through her nose. And for some reason my milk stopped.

IMHO no one has the right to judge how anyone feeds their child.

Have never, not once, felt embarrassed about buying formula tbh didn't notice if anyone was looking either. It didn't cross my mind. Both DC's were BF until 6 months and then I stopped - for me it was as easy as that.

I felt self concious breast feeding in public but not about buying formula

I love looking at other people's shopping on the conveyor belt snd trying to work out the story - single, family, party, special recipe, etc - but it never occurs to me to be judgemental about it. No, if I'm completely honest, the only time I'm at all judgemental about another shopper's stuff is when it's all highly ptocessed, high sugar high salt stuff, and even then I'm more likely to think "Ah-ha they're having a party".

Matildax - what else did you have in the basket?! Perhaps NosyWoman was peering in judgement at something else entirely, or more likely was just nosy.

Bassmama - maybe 'lazy Scottish parents' checkout bint was referring to the ready cartons, as opposed to the dried stuff? Or maybe she was just after a poke in the eye ?

I feel sorry for those of you who felt bad about buying formula - perhaps more to do with your own feelings/reasons for doing so than what others think? I do think that those who judge formula feeders are a tiny, tiny minded minority. Most people just care that you do feed your baby.

I would be embarrassed buying formula if someone thought if was for me though, as I'm a decent stretch into my thirties now, and much prefer vodka.

In response to the OP - absolutely not!

The lazy parents comment was about the cartons, I am sure, Bassmama.....not about ff versus bf.

On another thread, I talk about 'buying the ticket for the breastfeeding bus' and then finding yourself uncomfortably on the formula bus....but still thinking of yourself as being a breastfeeding mother, while knowing that's not what it looks like.

That means sometimes feeling uncomfortable and worried about what people think.

Quootie says she feels this is 'stupid' and 'pathetic' but this doesn't stop her feeling this way!

It is a bit daft - I mean, who cares what other people who don't even know you think, and whether they have even noticed what's in your basket???!!

You'll get over these feelings in time, Quootie - just as everyone says hete

hi there wandering trolley (good name by the way! ) all i had in my basket was baby milk! i couldnt care less really, like i said previously im happy and my babys happy, couldnt really ask for anything more x x