“I suffered, my newborn suffered, and because I couldn't breastfeed properly after this experience I suffered mentally for months over the guilt of what happened to my baby and my inability to breastfeed. If we were just given the chance to offer him a formula feed at the hospital to see if that satisfied him it would have made a world of a difference and it would have saved me from all the anxiety and sleep that I lost trying to feed my baby constantly. But because this hospital promoted breastfeeding they are against supplementing, breastfed is not what's always best, a baby should be fed and they should have helped ensure that even if that means offering formula.”

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