Thanks for sharing your story, CM.
They never told us whether or not they gave my DD a bottle, although I suspected they had given how long it was before I was able to feed her. And while the hospital was supportive of breastfeeding, they also seemed faster to give her a bottle than I would have liked. A nurse convinced us it would be better the first night (so she would sleep longer) and then as she had trouble gaining weight, they kept threatening to give her a bottle rather than giving me the help I needed to get her to nurse. (You'll see some of this pop up in the next chapter.) They tried to convince us to do so again the night before we went home, but after the first time we refused. We actually stopped leaving her in the nursery ever and my DH would go check on her every few minutes when they took her to check her over as we were convinced that if we left her there at all, they were going to give her a bottle.
