Like many new mums, Charlotte Hillier wanted desperately to breastfeed her baby. Before the birth of her son Oscar, she attended a workshop on breastfeeding and, while it wasn't practical in nature, she assumed breastfeeding would come naturally to her and her baby when the time came. It didn't. "It was a huge surprise. I just kept thinking that I bet women in the Amazonian rainforest didn't have the same trouble I was having," she says.
Fast forward four weeks and she is now feeding her baby mostly with formula and feels disappointed by the level of NHS support she received. "Those first few days are crucial," she says. "I feel things could have been very different and I could be breastfeeding exclusively now, had there been more support and had formula not been given so readily in hospital."
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