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[quote=Anonymous]OP here. I’m about to blow all of your minds, especially those who say I hate women who breastfeed. I don’t have children, I have never given birth.

What I do have is a best friend in the hospital, who just delivered her first baby over the weekend. She suffered from three heartbreaking, soul-shattering miscarriages after years of TTC and fertility treatments. Pushing 40, she though her luck had run out. She was wrong. She welcomed her absolutely perfect DD and all her friends and family couldn’t be more thrilled.

As you can imagine she did absolutely everything she could to prepare for her DD’s arrival, including taking multiple breastfeeding classes and quitting her high paying career. None of the money and success mattered anymore after her journey. All she wanted to do was be a mom.

After birth, baby refused to latch. Nurses were stumped what to do. Baby was frantic and hungry. She kept trying and trying to put baby at the breast to no avail. Her husband suggested formula and she begrudgingly also asked for some formula because she couldn’t bear to see her sweet girl cry in hunger while showing no signs of wanting to take the breast.

That’s when the lactation consultant dropped this bomb on her: “Keep offering the breast. You need to think about your baby first. The days are over where it’s all about you you you, and if you go straight to formula we both know it’s not the baby’s needs you’re trying to satisfy.”

I was in the room visiting and she burst into tears. I’m not typically one to interject but I immediately stood up and told the mean girl we were done here. It took everything I had and that her DH had to calm her down. We called for another nurse and reported what was said. It was horrific.

So here I am looking for any resources available to help her try and BF, offered to do whatever I could. But I’m sure this kind of thing is said all the time and it has to effing stop. [/quote]

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