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I supplemented for the first month because it took a while for my milk to come in and Micah had jaundice. She was a hungry baby as well. I nursed her around the clock, pumped, and gave her about 2-4 ounces of formula a day.
After the first month I EBF.
Planning on nursing until she decides she doesn't want anymore (or until age 2).

I didn't supplement with formula, because my milk came in fast enough for my son and I had a good supply. I did feel guilty when I tried to supplement with it at 10 months because I was pregnant and he didn't want to breastfeed due to the changes and decrease in my supply. I had to remind myself it's not poison like some people make it out to be. He wouldn't drink it though, even if he hadn't breastfed all day. So at a little before 11 months I ended up switching him to milk (lactaid) because he didn't want to breastfeed and wouldn't drink formula.
I do believe strongly that moms should breastfeed if they can. But I know it's not that easy for everyone, like if they work and have to pump or have latching problems etc. So I do not judge others choices. Personally I know I didn't realize until a while after my son was born how good it is for babies to breastfeed.

We supplemented with formula the first couple of weeks weeks while my milk supply was building up. Claire never took to the boob well so I continued to pump for 3 months...but it became too painful for me because I suffered from recurring thrush and mastitis. So she's been formula-fed since then.

I want to try breastfeeding again with BebeDeux, but I've promised myself that I won't feel as guilty as I did with Claire (I used to cry about it all the time) if I can't.

This is a great blog for formula feeders who would like support: http://www.fearlessformulafeeder.com/

I breastfed for the first 3 months with the occasional formula supplementing if I needed to go out or something came up. Luckily we never had any problems with her taking to the breast, but I had no luck pumping. I just hurt so much, I was actually bleeding once and than I said, this wasn't worth it. I knew going back to work after 3 months, I would have such a hard time stealing time away to pump for her. So I made the decision to formula feed. You're right that there is so much pressure for women to BF nowadays. It's weird because my mom never BF us. We were all formula fed.

Sometimes I still get the stare down when I tell people I've given up BF, but they are not in my shoes so I won't let myself feel guilty anymore. As long as she's still healthy and gaining weight, that's all my concern. I'm also grateful that my husband was always supportive from the very beginning. He never made me feel like I was giving my child poison.

5 days after he was born J's weight was dropping so we supplemented with formula and I found out he was tongue tied. So I pumped and supplemented with formula until my supply went up. Ugh exclusively pumping is hard work - I did it until I went back to work at 12 weeks then he was formula fed. I know it was perfectly fine but I did feel guilty. We aren't pregnant but I still don't know what I would do with the 2nd.

I had no choice but to supplement with formula once I went back to work. I could never pump enough to get my daughter through the day at daycare (meaning, I could spend lots of time pumping, but never got much out, I'd be lucky to get 4oz total pumping 3x over 8 hours). Pumps generally aren't as efficient as babies at extracting milk, and whatever it is about my boobs, the pump merely kept engorgement at bay.