Quote From: mrsmedicUnfortunately many mothers have no desire to bf. I'm glad your experience seems otherwise, but if most mothers wanted to, most mothers would. Yes, there are those of us who struggle, and there are solutions for many of us. I'm part of a group who helps moms across the world bf, some of them have to fight SO HARD for it. But I know many many moms who couldn't be bothered. They are missing out on so much, but sadly enough, so are their babies.
I gave up so early with my first babies. My last one I determined I was going to do this and he nursed until 11 mos. I wanted much much more than that. But it was hard work to get to where we did.
Many, if not most, problems with bf'ing can be overcome one way or another. Even if we end up expressing what we can get and feeding it to our baby through a tube on our breast. They still get that nursing experience.
23 years ago and 18, I never heard of places like now-a-days that offered help. I breast fed for 3 months. I was unable to pump affectively and really did not know how. The hand pump was very difficult and my breast milk did barely trickled out then. My point being, I didn't know of help back then, it was not "advertised". Now there is Le leche groups all over and I think it's fantastic. I missed giving up breast feeding on my last baby.
