Mumsnet undermining breastfeeding again.

Because they don’t know which it is, and they’re less likely to end up with a court case this way round 🤷🏼‍♀️

On a population level, perhaps. But nobody makes decisions based on population level statistics; they make the choice best for them.

Actually I think on a population level, that a significant difference. I wonder how many actual women that adds up to?
Also, why don't we say ff increases this risk rather than bf reducing it?

So you would lecture your daughter if she told you although o suspect she wouldn’t dare that she didn’t want to breastfeed

i hope for her sake that she tows the line

@Merryweather80

were you breastfed?

OK. I’m a conspiracy theorist because I name-change frequently, as do loads of posters on the site. Sure.

Look, think what you want. I said nothing in my earlier post that isn’t true. I pointed out that the risks are at societal level and small on individual level so I’m not trying to exaggerate anything at all. Anything I said can be found in the BMJ or any number of medical journals with credible research studies. I’m really not sure what there is to get so outraged/personal about, but I’m not so insecure that I can worry about what internet randomers think of me. You enjoy your Sunday.

Okay, I looked it up. Breastfeeding lowers your relative risk of breast cancer by 4% for every year of breastfeeding, but only certain types of breast cancer. Your risk of developing breast cancer over a lifetime is 15%, versus 14.4% if you breastfed for a year or longer.

I wouldn’t scare women over that to be honest.

Good observation!

I’ll be interested in response

@Merryweather80 are a satirical poster or just a bit dim?

you say Why feel guilty if you genuinely can't

yet in the exact same post you said it is better to bf

Multiple guises

The fact that you admit to frequently name changing @Tygertiger perhaps explains why on mumsnet breastfeeding / formula feeding is stuff an “issue” whereas in RL - very much “each to their own”

I suspect there’s a hardcore of BF fanatics that have multiple guides to give the impression that there’s so much more of them than there actually are!

Op sounds like a self-righteous puritanical fanatic.

Fed is best.

Ah so you go around spouting all this under different names?! 😂

You have just answered my question re how you would respond if your daughter said she didn’t want to breastfeed @Tygertiger

Might as well point her to the stately homes thread now op

I can only assume you’re stalking me on other posts. In which case you should know it’s pointless as I change my family circumstances on threads and name-change all the time. But you crack on 😆

Why do they never say? I thought they loved ‘factual, accurate information’.

@OzzyOzworn he refused a bottle. To this day won't have any kind of silicone in his mouth.

You feed how you want to but don't ignore the fact that it is better to bf. What did we do before formula? The human race would have died out. Yet so many say they can't. It's lack of support mainly. In the UK we can choose You, do you?
Read up on babies and their needs before getting pregnant and continue the research during.

It's not hard.

If you need support ask the health visitor, read the packet of formula. You do you n yours.
Why should I be shamed for my choices?

You shouldn't either.
Why can't we say our experienced and not attack others?

Why feel guilty if you genuinely can't......

So everyone piling on me with the assumption I’m a terrible shaming mother and will disown my daughter if she doesn’t bf my as-yet-not-conceived grandchildren is reasonable, but me linking to established evidence that BF reduces risk of breast cancer in women is outrageous? It’s on the Cancer Research UK website, FGS. You don’t have to like it but you can’t say it’s not true. I accept that choosing to drink wine raises my cancer risk. I don’t like that either but I absolutely accept that if I contract breast cancer in the future, there’s a chance I wouldn’t have done so had I been teetotal. That’s just making an informed choice, surely. I can’t stamp my feet and pretend the risk isn’t there just because I enjoy a bottle of Sauvignon at the weekends.

Honestly. If your only argument is to start hurling insults at my parenting, you really need to take a look at yourself. It’s possible to have these discussions without mudslinging, FFS.

@Tygertiger

porkies…your dd doesn’t have younger siblings so how did she watch you breastfeed them? 😂

What you talking about. FF is the most common choice. Compare getting your boob out in public to a bottle and see. Even the language we use treats ff as the default. Its always bf 'reduces' this risk of (long list of conditions) it's never ff 'increases' the risk of .

Ha busted

Sure she would do the same after a lecture about her increased risk of breast cancer. Lovely!!!!

So @Tygertiger

If your daughter said she wasn’t going to breastfeed.

You wouldn’t passionately confront her with all you’ve outlined here and beg her to read that breastfeeding book?

I breastfed. If my dd came to me and said she didn’t want to even try, I’d ask if she’s read about the colostrum benefits and whether she’d like to talk about why, but if she said “nope”, then I’d hug and no further mention

Aren’t you the poster on another thread where a mother asked about brands of formula who hijacked it and started ranting about how much breastfeeding was better and taking issue with the phrase ‘fed is best’ @Redebs ? It’s none of your business what decisions other mothers make about feeding their babies. Stop pushing your agenda at women here. I don’t know why you think you are the only one capable of reading an article and not being influenced by it or knowing about breastfeeding benefits so you just HAVE to come on here and inform the stupid women who don’t know any better 🙄

She may want to but be unable to but great to hear you will support her with bottle formula feeding if needed:)

Wow, what a lovely attempt to shame someone you’ve never met.

Not my baby, not my business. As it happens, given that she saw me feed younger siblings and has seen her aunties and cousins do the same, she regards BF as the norm. Seeing other women breastfeeding is known to be an effective way of increasing rates amongst women, so I would be surprised if she didn’t. But obviously it’ll be her choice and I can’t even get outraged at your shaming efforts as there’s not a chance I’d behave that way, so it doesn’t feel a remotely credible slur to hurl. Sorry, try harder next time. 😆