This is more to vent than a question. A few days ago my husbands mother (who I've had a very rocky relationship from the start) asked me if I was going to nurse. I told her I wasn't sure because the idea of breast feeding right now makes me uncomfortable. I'm going to take some lactation classes and I'm for sure going to pump until I can't anymore- but I don't know if breast feeding is truly for me, and that shouldn't be a bad thing. She gave me this truly horrid look and went "well I nursed all my children" and then proceeded to state how wrong she thought it was to deprive a child of the nutrients of a mothers milk like there was something wrong with bottle fed babies (of which I am one by the way- my mother never nursed any of her children) and when I told her I was going to pump for sure she told me that isn't "Real" nursing. However my doctor and the entire state (were lower income and on WIC) begs to differ. So now I'm left kind of feeling like crap and my husband understands but didn't seem able to stick up for me. I'm tired of feeling sad because people want to criticize me for choices in making and things in going to do before I even do it.