Oh tit off.

Breast is best, breast is best.

Oh is it now?

I understand that breast milk is best for your baby and I appreciate that but it isn't always best for the lady.

When I was pregnant I was adamant that I wouldn't breast feed so my husband could share the night feeds with me and to be honest, I didn't really want to flop my droopy boobs out every two hours. I was being selfish.

But laying there drugged up to the eyeballs, waiting for Lilian to arrive, I changed my mind. That is, until I had my stomach cut open.

The pain I felt after I'd had her hit me a few hours after the epidural wore off. I was told I could start breastfeeding later that day. I changed my mind again. Barely able to walk, think, pick up my daughter... How the hell was I going to cope with her attached to my breast? It was final, formula milk all the way.

The day I arrived home I was in a lot of pain. I was only allowed to take paracetamol and paracetamol couldn't touch me. The health visitor did her rounds and asked me if I'd consider breastfeeding and I really wanted to say yes but I just couldn't go through any more pain. I was finding it hard to move around and climbing the stairs was a nightmare. Sitting up in bed was near impossible. I just couldn't say yes and it broke my heart.

I admire any woman that breast feeds. It's a wonderful thing, so intimate. What I don't admire are busybodies that have only had natural births and preach to the world that women should breast feed and that you're a failure if you don't. Stop being so bloody ignorant. There are hundreds of reasons why woman can't breastfeed and if they choose not to for purely selfish reasons, so what? They've spent the last nine months doing one of the most selfless things possible.

Give the formula feeding Mums a break. What happened to the sisterhood?

You should be supporting other Mothers, not giving them grief.