I fully planned to breast feed my first (daughter) and did so for about 2 days. The pain was awful...I cried too...it hurt before she 'latched on' and I was in agony and bawling after she latched on. Finally, my then hubby asked me why I was torturing myself like that??? And he was the one who pushed me to do it, because it was 'natural' and his mother had done it. Whatever. I got pills to dry up the boobies and started her on formula and as has been said in previous posts above, that meant he could help feed her...the plus for him was that he got to bond with her also, and that was something, had I known would be so important to him, I never would have entertained the idea of breast feeding at all.

When my son was born, I told the doc, gimme the pills. I'm bottle feeding all the way!