Well said.

Oh, and had you read my comment well you would have realized that indeed, I am in favour of breast feeding, so much so that I breast fed both my children and would do so again and again if I was of childbearing age. What you fail to see from your high horse is that you cannot put everything and everyone under the same umbrella. Breast feeding my second child for eight months full time made me realize I wasn’t in the right mind zone and perhaps feeling a touch of baby blues….and the doc must have realized this being the good doc he is and suggested I stop. I used to go to a mother and baby group, all of us tits out too!

Careful how you get off your moral high horse dear, you might hurt yourself

The long trail of comments goes to show that the subject is a highly emotive one because it has to do,firstly, with the woman’s body and secondly to do with experience which can be positive or negative.

To the contrary of bored I could not breast feed. I had three children in my early thirties. I consider myself educated, with a lovely career working with children. I knew it all. My children would be breastfed, use no dummies and be treated with natural remedies….but life had other plans!

I won’t bore you with the details, however in one of my desperate new mummy moments, I took my child to A&E. The consultant there (to this day I consider him an angel), asked my husband and I what we did for a living and he gave us formula.

My child gulped it up and for the first time in 2 months she slept for two hours.

This same consultant told us that not all breast milk is created equal and he told us this because he knew we could handle it (we told him we worked in the field of psychology). He said many mothers would get depressed if they were told this. I was relieved.

Needless to say it wasn’t a hospital in Malta. My experience of motherhood changed completely after that. I actually could bond with my child!

The midwives here are toning it down….or at least they have done so in my case as I had the same issues for the consecutive two. One midwife said that basically she couldn’t tell me to stop breast feeding but she implied that the needs of the family are more important….sanity being one of them.

So please let’s not turn this into a nanny state where people are “educated” by the state in personal matters such as this. Surely such a modern government should know otherwise.

Apologies for the personal rather than scientific comment however, at the end of the day, breast feeding is personal.

I gave birth to my daughter whilst I had severe conjunctivitis and my daughter who needed special care (I will not dwell on this) was whisked away to NPICU and I could not hold her for six days, let alone breastfeed her.

The first question I was asked was which milk I wanted to give my daughter. (The medical side was of course taken care of). Being my first child, I had asked around and done some research but would not have known which milk was imported to Malta had it not been for advertising, and now our dear Minister wants to ban this?

Please think of the mothers who have no choice but to bottle feed and make a campaign to stop the ridiculous pressures/glances which some mothers face when breastfeeding in public.

It’s not a sin to breastfeed but neither is is a sin to bottlefeed and bottle fed babies grow up just as healthily as breastfed babies and succeed in life too! Dear Minister, please please do NOT give the impression that homeless/unwanted children at the creche are NOT given good care because they are bottlefed!

No, maybe you’ll be asked to leave the building like breastfeeding moms all around the world are now. Because really bottle feeders are the ‘misled’. So misled they will defend it will all their might so they don’t feel so bad about the whole babies dying and detachment thing. Snarky attitude included.

Oh and the reason women are behind this…because we are real women who use our ‘tits on tap’ as they were intended, and know that small helpless babies have no voice in the matter.

Has anyone bothered to ask the babies what they want?

[Daphne – Milk. And believe me when I say that they don’t give a damn where it comes from: wet nurse, biological mother, mother with bottle or somebody else with a bottle, as long as the person is familiar to them. And when they’re really new, they don’t even bother about that, either.]

umm, I’ve yet to see an article about a ‘bottle feeding mom’ being told to ‘get out’ of somewhere because she was feeding her baby. but every week there is a new story about a nursing mom being kicked out of somewhere, so bull sh&t about bottle feeding moms being criminalized. You can’t find one bit of evidence to support that. If you feel like a criminal for bottle feeding, that’s your own conscience to deal with. and funny you think women are making there own choices. women are terrified in our society to be ‘soft, gentle, or motherly because peeps like the loving mother type that wrote this article push the anti women propaganda all the time. Read her other articles. She states that moms who stay home to care for family and home aren’t contributors to society. nice. was she raised a test tube by Hitler?

[Daphne – Bottle-feeding mothers are not asked to leave because it’s not the feeding that causes offence but the display of breasts/an intimate act in a public place. It annoys some people, and you have to respect their sentiments.]

umm, well, unless you were unfortunate enough to be born without breasts… it is for every mother.

whether you choose it or not is your choice, and because formula is a leading cause of death in babies moms should really take the choice a little more seriously than they do.

advertising something that is a leading cause of death to the average mom who might not know the ‘true’ benefits of breastfeeding isn’t the best idea. I mean car commercials tell you that it’s a stunt driver on a closed course, do the formula ads shell out the truth and say ‘hey our formula killed millions of babies this year!!!!! buy some now.

a formula ad should sound like a pharmaceutical ad where they let you know the ‘death’ possibility.

well, if you don’t want to breastfeed why is it the hospitals responsibility to pay for the formula? bringing it yourself sounds like the perfect option.