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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I always do. My milk doesn't come in for a few days and no need for baby to starve. I nursed until 20 months and 2 years. [/quote]

I wish I did. I had an early precipitous labor for my first baby and it took around a week for my milk to come in. Baby was hungry and miserable and I didn't know anything about supplementing.

We had a first visit to the pediatrician's office when baby was 4 days and a second visit when baby was 5-6 days. Milk had not come in on either occasion. We saw two different peds on those days. On the second visit, we lucked into getting our current awesome ped who recommended supplementing with some enfamil RTF nursettes. [/quote]

I'm confused. So you didn't feed the baby for 5-6 days until someone else told you to use bottled formula?[/quote]

Plenty of lactivists would tell a mother with insufficient milk to just keep trying, regardless of what happens to the baby.  So it does not surprise me at all, in the current extreme breastfeeding culture pushed at women of a certain class, that a mother would think she should just keep putting the baby to breast until specifically told to use formula by a doctor.  Women's natural instincts to nurture their babies are being warped by extreme crunchy natural mothering, plus the culture of mothering olympics which assigns a crazy value to trivial things like "exclusively breastfeeding".  [/quote]

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