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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is such an ignorant question that comes up often from expecting mothers that clearly have some unresolved feelings about their choice to FF their baby.

No one cares what you do. No one is going to pressure you. Just state you are not breastfeeding. Really it's quite simple without your (gasp!) histrionics. [/quote]

This post is not only bitchy, it's false.  I breastfed and I was still got the "you're not going to ask for FORMULA, are you?" treatment at GW when it wasn't going well.  There is pressure in certain quarters, OP experienced it the first time around herself.[/quote]

I intended to (and did successfully) exclusively breastfeed my baby, but I'm definitely fed is best and I had heard enough horror stories from people I trusted that I brought some ready to feed formula bottles with me just in case. If my baby was hungry, and nursing wasn't enough to satiate him, then I was going to feed him some formula, and I wasn't going to go 12 rounds with some "baby friendly" nurse about it.

Never actually had to use it (and all my nurses were fabulous), but I think it's smart to be prepared when you're going to be emotionally and physically overwhelmed in a place that differs from you ideologically. [/quote]

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