Heather wrote:
<<mothers/parents who have had to jump through hoops...are rather *less*
likely to breastfeed than you'd expect for their age, education and economic
status....these parents,  more than anyone, have less reason to be confident
that  their own bodies will do what nature intends. They have become used to
measuring, charting, timing and so on - and you can't do that with
breastfeeding.>>

Also I think that they have more confidence in the scientific miracle.   I
think this is also a contributing factor to the lower rate of bf in babies who
are sick in the NICU etc --- they high-tech stuff seems to be working so much
better than nature that it feels counterintuitive to them to go with bm
instead of a "scientifically designed product."

Elisheva Urbas in NYC