Why "choose" to bottle feed???

[Difers]

I am a breastfeeding mum and I meet lots of mums who said they tried to breastfeed but weren't able to which I can totally understand but My mother-in-law said she "chose" to bottlefeed and didn't bother even trying...

So I am wondering, given the benefits of breastfeeding, why would anyone "choose" to bottlefeed??

I don't know but a girl I work with had a baby recently and she bottle-feeds cos she found the idea of breast feeding was too 'wierd'. I didn't know what to say to her!

ALso my friend told me that her mum didn't breast feed because she said it made her feel like a cow. ????? eh????

Because they want to.

End of story.

you know i'm very pro breast feeding, but i would think this is very obvious - professional advice - formula was pushed by all 30 years ago, peer pressure, sexualisation of breasts, embarrassment, wanting to share the feeding and so on.

Tutter - I was just thinking about whether to post pass the pop corn......

it was probably a generational thing for your MIL.

it is such a personal decision and there is a real lack of accesible and worthwhile support

some try and cannot do it, some don;t try..at the end of the day, i think we all know breast is best...but ultimately, as mothers, we make the choice

if breastfeeding worked well for you, great! why not become a peer supporter and help others breastfeed, rather than denigrate the choices of other mums

how we feed our babies is very emotional, and very personal, and it is rarely as simple as choosing not to.

When I questioned a friend about this the answer was:

• she didn't like the idea
• she didn't like having no routine
• she didn't like the thought of not knowing how much milk her DS was getting

Her DS was on a strict 4 hourly feeding regime from birth. Not my cup of tea but each to their own I guess - that's what her mum did.

I ended up bottle feeding btw, not out of choice unfortunately.

I think that it was a different generation perhaps and BF not seen as being as socially acceptable as it is now.

pass it over tutter & shove up on that sofa love.

MIL bottle fed DH/BIL, it was her own choice - she's never divilgued any details to me i've never asked. was a bit put out thou when she treid to tell me how I should/shouldn't be BF'ing DS when demand feeding. (prob new mum syndromoe thou)

budge up budge up

I think it's a valid question too - maybe all the people reaching for popcorn are trying to stir up an argument - when there won't be one. (I hope)

my sil chose to bottle feed because after having 2 babies close together she wanted her body back.

you may as well ask why choose to breast feed, we live in a free society, every choice is valid, thank god!

what a completely sanctimonious question

not always compo - MIL & my mum are the same age, we were BF as I say DH wasn't. no idea why he wasn't don't think MIL liked the idea./

oh fgs,for a myriad of reasons, same as people 'choose' to breastfeed. What an insufferably smug op.

the very phrasing of the question , with the word 'choose' in inverted commas, is denigrating , IMO

bizziebee, this subject always ends up getting hot and bothered.