Liz

Prior to becoming pregnant, I had always assumed that I would formula feed my children. Of course, while pregnant with my oldest, I became more educated about the benefits of breastfeeding and decided to give it a try. With my oldest, it was a very rough start breastfeeding - my milk came in very slowly and my daughter had difficulties latching on. After several days of effort, help from the visiting nurse and a super-duper industrial pump it clicked. I must say though, it was very comforting to me during this stressful time to have the information in the package I received in the hospital from a formula manufacturer.

After about 7 months of breastfeeding, I felt as though my daughter was weaning herself and was not getting all she needed from breastfeeding - it was certainly a gut-feeling and personal choice that was not made lightly.

With my second daughter, there were really no issues with breastfeeding and we switched to formula around 8 months.

I feel strongly that each mom needs to have ALL the information available to her so she can make an educated choice as to what will work best for her child and situation.