Morning all!
Twigoletto - Isn't that Herr Kruger towards the top right hand corner of the poster?
::Uses Massive's patent zoomometer to devastating and debilitating effect::
::weakly, from the chaise longue::
Spiro - I never go anywhere near the bf/ff threads because there are so many zealots and harpies opinionated people on them. Like a dutiful graduate of the NCT, I was determined to bf Girl and did so for a very long time indeed (until we could have a conversation about whether to continue). But, my experience disproves what the most zealous of the zealots say about "anyone can bf ... your body will ensure your baby gets enough milk ... there are things you can do to increase your supply ... etc". At one stage, Girl (who was also a heffalump a large baby) put on something like one ounce in a fortnight. My lovely HV (part of the medial patriarchy, doncha know, and therefore not to be trusted) came to my home and actually weighed Girl before and after a feed. She had guzzled away for 30 minutes and - despite my elderly norks looking like a pair of missile silos - managed to take in a measly ounce of milk. So it was mixed feeding from them on.
I was particularly ::roll eyes:: when you were told that your experience was immaterial, as it was anecdotal. The fact is, that your experience and mine show that exclusive bf doesn't work for everybody and it's not because we're too lazy/daft/in thrall to Nestle. I also notice on those threads that some people (deliberately or not) misinterpret what the research says. The research says that, on the whole, bf babies are prone to fewer health problems than ff babies. It doesn't say (as some posters imply) that every bf baby is a picture of health and every ff baby is a walking laboratory of sickness and contagion.
Hey ho.