Aaaah I see the "make formula feeding even MORE expensive and arkward and that'll make those rotters breastfeed" crew are out in force.
I would say - go see the FF guilt thread on that respective forum, but I'd actually prefer it if you stayed away since we get bullied enough.
But yes, let's use this warped logic to punish me a bit more huh? Let's make it just a little bit MORE arkward and financially painful to formula feed (and yes, we're struggling financially - come above the cut-offs for any help, I get no maternity pay, no maternity allowance, no benefits whatosoever, we fall just above the tax credit threshold - it's not pretty)...because obviously everyone who feeds formula does it through choice - not through having a premature baby with a poor suck reflex and difficulty latching (can't say I blame her having trouble with my astronomical post-pregnancy assets with the mouth of a 4lb sized baby), and despite pumping my backside off - my supply dried up and my breastpump died... but yep, I must have immediately rushed to the supermarket, looked at the aisle and thought "cor that's cheap - let's feed the baby that instead"... when in fact I actually apologised to my husband because the failure of my body (coupled with the failure of the appalling hospital care and lack of support we received) was going to cost us a heck of a lot of pain financially - and I felt crap enough about the added financial strain my inability to breastfeed was going to put on the family.
But yeah - whack it up to £15 a carton, or £20 or whatever - that'll make my boobs work again, that'll make my daughter go back up my vagina and come out as a term baby, and that'll make my appalling hospital develop a clue beyond "lob norks at baby - hope they stick" as a method of breastfeeding support. Label everyone who bottle feeds as doing so through badly-motivated choice, ignore the dreadful stories many women have of the tears they've shed and how awful they already are made to feel - and just grind them further and further into the ground - because that'll make someone with no supply miraculously develop one, that'll make someone mentally at breaking point suddenly become well and emotionally able to deal with breastfeeding that's stressing them out, it'll make my girl miraculously be able to latch, repair tongue ties, it'll solve everything won't it?
I will NOT be criminalised and treated like some shameful little secret because of how I feed my baby. I will NOT be punished because of how I feed my baby and I will NOT allow her to be punished because of the consequences of her birth and how choices were removed from me. The bullying of formula fed women HAS to stop. It's "breast is best" not "batter the formula feeders".