No. Please don't stop. Someone has to save the world, and I'm having an off day.
To elaborate on my stance; I encourage breastfeeding any way I can, but when someone is weeping from the pain of some breastfeeding related problem I've never experienced, I have to breathe out, suppress my 'breastfeeding at all costs' reflex and say the sincerely soothing and sympathetic things that I also think and feel.
As for the questions about breastfeeding being 'hard'; I'd point out that most of the points apply equally to bottle feeding. That someone else can bottle feed a baby does not replace the baby's need for 'mumness', so the "something that only you can give" factor is still there to a larger extent than many people realise. Though once again, I have not raised a bottle fed baby, so I can't speak from my own experience. *sigh*
(I believe this flaw in my personality is to do with relative Myers Briggs Type Indicator things. I'm so heavy on the "perceiving" end of the scale that I can't judge anything much. Maybe.)
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To elaborate on my stance; I encourage breastfeeding any way I can, but when someone is weeping from the pain of some breastfeeding related problem I've never experienced, I have to breathe out, suppress my 'breastfeeding at all costs' reflex and say the sincerely soothing and sympathetic things that I also think and feel.
As for the questions about breastfeeding being 'hard'; I'd point out that most of the points apply equally to bottle feeding. That someone else can bottle feed a baby does not replace the baby's need for 'mumness', so the "something that only you can give" factor is still there to a larger extent than many people realise. Though once again, I have not raised a bottle fed baby, so I can't speak from my own experience. *sigh*
(I believe this flaw in my personality is to do with relative Myers Briggs Type Indicator things. I'm so heavy on the "perceiving" end of the scale that I can't judge anything much. Maybe.)