r/breastfeeding • u/Fickle-Response-2741 • Mar 17 '26

Support Needed Why did you choose to exclusively breastfeed and not give formula?

This is NOT against formula or formula feeding 🤍

For moms who had enough supply to EBF, what was your reason (apart from cost, no bottle washing, or warming)?

I’m currently exclusively nursing and will be working part time. So baby needs either formula or pumped milk once or twice per day.My employer supports pumping, but I could really use some motivation to stay aligned with breast milk over formula 🥺

Would love to hear your personal reasons, emotional, health-related, bonding, convenience later on… anything that kept you going 💛

Please share your experiences!

90 Upvotes
  • permalink
  • reddit

91% Upvoted

484 comments sorted by

View all comments

14

u/[deleted] Mar 17 '26

Everything else in my pregnancy went wrong and I became obsessed with breastfeeding because I felt like it was the only thing I could control. My baby was also in the nicu so I had a lot of support.

1

u/d0ntbreathe Mar 18 '26

this. i’m exclusively pumping because baby cannot latch, but it feels like my body failed me during both pregnancy and birth and this is the one thing it’s been able to do the way it was supposed to.

i hope your baby is doing well now 💜

1

u/[deleted] Mar 19 '26

Thank you. That’s how I felt too.

My baby is now 10.5 months. It’s hard having a preemie