Here's a gem, culled from a book sent to me (I get freebies from publishers
as they think I'm going to review them in magazines - I rarely do) called
You and Your New Baby by Christine and Peter Hill, a husband and wife team
of physiotherapist and a psychiatrist. They are not hostile to bf, just
ill-informed about a lot of it. Here's how they reassure mothers about the
breast v bottle thing

'One way of thinking about the decision is not to see it as a stark
choice.....but a question as to when you will transfer from breast to
bottle.'

And:

'some mothers will breast feed (sic) one of their children but not the
other, not so much on account of their increasing experience, but because
the individual personalities of their babies mean that it feels right to
give one a bottle, the other the breast.'

I expect this is the psychiatrist talking. This may a very simplistic way
of saying something that might be sort of true, though I have never heard
any woman make a decision on 'personality' grounds at birth, or make the
decision at any time because of the baby's  'personality'...and I have
heard lots of reasons not to bf.   I think it should go on the 'stupid
reasons to bottle feed list' .

Seriously, this is *not* reassuring to mothers. Mothers may worry they'll
get it wrong, by misinterpreting their baby's personality.... or more
likely, they'll toss the book in the bin : )

Heather Welford Neil
NCT bfc Newcastle upon Tyne UK