That's a great article, sums up everything I believe in bf! If only everyone was offered some of this advice from the start then maybe they would have more realistic expectations and be able to continue bf. I hate reading posts where hv have advised to give formula top ups to stop baby from cluster feeding, or because they haven't put on a lot of weight, it's perfectly normal to cluster feed and for bf babies weight to fluctuate, but if a hv is telling you it isn't then as a new mum you'll just accept its right. My hv told me my baby should be having formula top ups even when he was weighing spot on his percentile line, I questioned it and said why and they said well your baby crys a lot so he seems hungry and needs formula, I was furious I told them I was ebf and not a drop of formula would be given to him as my milk was fine and he wasn't hungry he was crying cos he was a newborn that's how they communicate ffs, plus he had colic, the hv then basically accused me of being a bad mum for not considering formula. It's a good job I was strong in my decision to bf cos it took a lot of bloody will power and fighting people's opposition (my mum, hv's etc) to continue, but my baby is happy healthy, he has gone from 9th to 75th percentile and is as content as can be and all from my milk. I do ff him now since he turned 6 mths but that was always the plan as I go back to work soon and can't bf him, but I'm proud of the 6 mths I did
