Your experience emphasises so much for me the stumbling around and uncertainty of new parenthood. There isn’t anywhere near enough funding, in most countries, to support well-resourced teams of health care visitors, community midwives, lactation consultants etc. – the kind of parental-support army that is well positioned to provide supportive and informed care to all of these new parents – parents who are confused by conflicting advice, parents who are desperately seeking opinions and information on the internet that they then can’t interpret, or that they can’t determine as applying to them or not. It’s a lonely business. It’s hard when people interpret this post as some kind of anti-breastfeeding post when that’s so not what it’s about! Thanks very much for writing.