BellaOnline Forums Health and Fitness Breastfeeding Breastfeeding Help and Support Poll

When your babies were born, did you receive the help and support you needed to breastfeed successfully?

Breastfeeding Help and Support single choice
	It was easy, I never needed help
	I got all the help I needed in my birth setting (hospital, birth center, from midwife, etc)
	I got all the help I needed from local resources (pediatrician, LLL, local consultant)
	I got all the help I needed from family or friends
	I didn't get enough help and breastfeeding suffered or was unable to breastfeed
	I didn't want help, because I didn't want to breastfeed
Votes accepted starting: 11/05/07 12:45 AM You must vote before you can view the results of this poll.

These results are sad = 50 % didn't get the help they needed. I was also in that boat. It took all of my self-advocacy skills and over 2 months of fighting to build my supply enough to be able to ebf. Thank GOD that I have a big mouth, big enough to seek out the help we needed!