Jheurf, I feel your pain!

My first son was born a little underweight and couldn't feed properly at the breast. Being a physician, I was very self-conscious about throwing my weight around and acting like a jerk, so I only timidly asked if it wouldn't make sense to switch to a bottle, only to be rebuffed multiple times by the nurses who kept telling me that this was a "crucial" time to initiate breastfeeding.

Finally, my son began to get lethargic, at which point a blood test revealed he was severely hypoglycemic. He had to be rushed to the neonatal ICU and put on an IV sugar drip.

It has been my observation that breastfeeding proponents have many of the characteristics of cultists. If you and your baby are comfortable with breastfeeding then by all means do it, but don't make those who choose differently feel negligent or worse. I don't want to get into a whole debate about it because it would surely deteriorate into name-calling, but I'll only say that when it became clear that my son was going to have a lot of difficulty with breastfeeding, I reviewed the scientific literature in some detail (I am a physician and research scientist myself) and came away thinking that the evidence in favour of breastfeeding is not near as strong as many suppose.