YES. This shit fucking infuriates me, and it infuriates me that even in an article about this dangerous bullshit, the doctor they quote--who should be discouraging this in the strongest terms--is such a breast Nazi that he can't just state the actual truth: that formula is perfectly good, it is not dangerous or inferior, that in developed countries the much-vaunted IQ benefit consists of a couple of points that basically even out by the time the kids are teenagers. His "Eh, formula's better than nothing, I guess, if you're too lazy to be a real mom,"-style quote at the end makes me want to slap him. It doesn't even occur to these assholes that their fucking pointless nagging has driven women to this unbelievably gross and dangerous practice, and none of them give a shit about the babies who've ended up with serious brain damage or died because their mothers were so terrified of not breastfeeding that they starved them rather than give them formula. Or the mothers who've killed themselves because, like you, they skipped their medication so they could breastfeed because nobody ever told them that the benefits of it are greatly overstated and formula is perfectly good. When my second was born I attended the "new baby" class in the maternity ward, and the lactivist cunt teaching it literally drove a couple of the new moms to tears by implying that not only did they not really love their babies if they didn't breastfeed, but that their babies would almost definitely end up obese and retarded because of it. I reached a point where I started openly calling her on that shit as she spoke, I was so angry. Fuck those bitches. (Ironically, studies now seem to imply that breastfeeding is more likely to cause obesity, instead of the common belief that formula will. Personally, I never met a breastfed infant--including my youngest--who wasn't a smushy blob, whereas my formula-fed infant was solid and slim. Youngest obviously grew out of that stage by about three months, as babies of normal parents do, and is now a beautiful slim teenager who does gymnastics, but still.)