I desperately wanted to breastfeed and felt I failed as a mom when I couldn't

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This First Person column is the experience of Morag Wehrle, who lives in North Vancouver, B.C. For more information about CBC’s First Person stories, please see the FAQ.

The first time I gave my five-week-old daughter a bottle of formula in public, in a busy park in the summer sunshine, I felt like I was breaking the law. I hunched over the diaper bag as I poured the powdered mix into the bottle and added distilled warm water from a thermos — hiding it from view as though I were doing something obscene. I screwed the lid onto the bottle and

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