Our experience back in 2000 was of be breast police forcing my Wife to feed a sleeping 4 hour old baby, telling her that if she didn't feed it it the baby would

Our experience back in 2000 was of be breast police forcing my Wife to feed a sleeping 4 hour old baby, telling her that if she didn't feed it it the baby would die then standing over her and telling her that everything she was doing was wrong. Not a good start. This is after a 36 hour labour and I'd run away home for some sleep. This was our first baby so everything was new and unfortunately everything in the hospital was high pressure with an undercurrent of "why don't you know how to do this?". After a few days we managed to escape the hospital. Once we were home the pace slowed down and amazingly enough we started to discover what made this little fella tick. Feeding was still a lot of pain and tears, so we finally in desperation purchased some bottles and formula. Was amazing how much of a difference taking the stress of feeding away was. The baby was happy, the mother was happy, I was happy and we never looked back. He's now a healthy 6 foot 18yr old working his first job. It was amazing how much of a different reception we got on subsequent babies. The midwifes tended to just leave us to it. In both subsequent times we managed to get out of the hospital within 24 hours of the birth, allowing us to get to know the new member of the family without everybody trying to tell us how to do it.