Breastfeeding militia

Before I gave birth, I was really open minded and nonchalant about breastfeeding or not. I had decided I was going to give it a try and see what happened. It if worked, I would breastfeedl; if it didn't, I'd formulafeed.

Turned out, breastfeeding was easy for me and I have been exclusively breastfeeding the baby for the last 4 and a half months. I also found it very easy. If I had to bottlefeed during those first few newborn weeks, I think I would've lost it. Breastfeeding was seemed so much easier, simpler and faster. Just whip out a boob and the food was ready.

Now, a friend of ours had a baby a couple of weeks ago. She had decided from the get-go that she wasn't going to breastfeed, but give the baby formula.

It's none of my business and it wasn't my decision and I have no right to judge, obviously, but ever since that baby was born (we went to see them at the hospital), I find myself getting really annoyed and angry when I reflect on my friend's decision not to breastfeed.

She didn't even try. Had she tried and decided that it was too hard, painful, inconvenient, etc....I would've understood and respected her decision. But the fact that she didn't even try, really bugged me.

It's one simple gift of health (the immunity and all) you can give to your baby, not to mention that, at least I found it to be, a time and sanity saver during those first few weeks.

I feel that if you can't even try to give that to your child, what else will you not "sacrifice" in the future and not provide for your child.