to think the Breast and Bottle feeding Board should be

[FunnysInTheGarden]

renamed the Breast and Anti Formula campaigning board.

Who would have thought that folk who BF could get sooo worked up about formula companies and the way they market formula......

OK, so we all bit. Can I now suggest that we all stop posting and just let this pointless, repetitive thread slide sadly down the board......

Funny, YANBU. which is why i make a point of answering any FF questions i see posted there with comments other than...

"gee i dont know as i BF but have you considered relactivation?"

drives me up the fricking wall.

I would actually like to see the two topics split out.

Funnys you need to get some help if how other people feed their children really bothers you that much.

It is very possible to be utterly thankful that formula exists and completely non-judgemental about parents who FF, while at the same time deploring the tactics that formula companies use to undermine breastfeeding.

But many people have told you that before and you don't want to listen. You don't want a discussion, you just want to bang on and bang with the same tired theme.

YABU.

OK. Lets leave it. Just wanted my perspective to be aired to MN as a whole and not just the rarefied air of the Breast/Bottle Feeding board

SugarPlum - would you have another topic for mixed feeding then?

I think it would be very divisive to split the boards.

thanks SPF that is exactly why I get wound up and also why I make a point of contributing to the threads on FF with common sense advice, not just 'have you read the Politics of Breast Feeding' or 'Have you considered joining our boycot of Nestle?'

" Just wanted my perspective to be aired to MN as a whole and not just the rarefied air of the Breast/Bottle Feeding board"

I NEVER go to the breast/bottle feeding board. I discovered MN when I'd got past that stage. Anyone who gives a toss would be on that board, where this topic appears to have been discussed ad infinitum.

YABU.

yanbu

quite, SM

SM yes it is discussed ad infinitum among people who have one view - hence not much in the way of balanced discussion. I have a 7 month old DS (2) and this discussion is relevant to me. Am interested to hear what the general consensus is

at bedtime

YABU
I have formula fed my DD since she was 3 days old and regularly go to that board to read advice.
Never had a problem with it.
Don't know your hstory on here, but sounds like you're being over-sensitive.

If you are "sick to death of the BF/FF discussion" then maybe you should stop initiating the discussion.

Maybe it's yourself who is the one with the issues with FF and you are strugling to deal with it?

sos COC, a bit late to the discussion. Apart from which you were talking about my thread before the thread before, and not this discussion. Do Keep Up

YABU, but I have often wondered if perhaps there should be two separate sections.

"You may have a different take once you have experienced BF."

No you won't, DuelingFanjo, you'll be fine

you will almost certainly be able to BF DF and why wouldn't you. Just that you may have a different perspective once you have done it once or twice

I am as sensitive as the next person to evangelical preaching about the magic of breastmilk and the evils of formula, but I don't think there's anyone on Mumsnet who would go on a thread entitled "Help, I'm not sure if I'm using the right teat size for my exclusively formula fed baby" and rant about the evils of formula. Do you OP? Honestly.

BTW, it's breast and bottle feeding NOT breast and formula feeding. Breastfed babies have bottles too! Sometimes EBM and sometimes formula. It would be totally unhelpful to split the two.

YANBU - there's a huge amount of aggression found there and as a result when someone who is genuinely struggling when trying to bf - I for one am terrified to say "you appear to be starving your baby and your mental health appears to be deteriorating hourly, have you thought of (guilt-free!) formula?".

I wish the forum could be split. :(

gaelicsheep - perhaps. I've seen some very odd responses to questions there asked by frightened, unsure women struggling with their baby.

SugarPlum, it is VERY rare that people suggest relactation... Usually only as an aside if the Mother has said she wishes she hadn't been giving formula and that she was still BFing or whatever.

I usually read all of the threads on there, and very rarely see someone who is asking about formula being told they are evil and they should have breastfed, or shouldn't give up.

AlpinePony, if someone wants breastfeeding support, then surely telling them to formula feed is just as bad as someone telling someone who is formula feeding to relactate and breastfeed?

Breastmilk is better than formula, end of. That doesn't mean that people think that formula is poison. The more general consensus is that formula companies are not great as they prey on people with their advertising, and those less knowledgable believe that their baby MUST need formula. Even my Mum has started asking me whether DD should have "growing up milk" and she's a huge BF advocate.

Not everyone is as intelligent as most on here. There are naive people who, through advertising, believe that formula is powdered breast milk. I have seen and heard it. THOSE people need to be protected and have truthful information given to them so they can make an informed decision. There are laws re formula for a reason.

Personally, I'll never understand formula feeding, but that doesn't mean that I look down on it.

it really annoys me when i read that there is agression towards formula feeding mothers on here

I was a formula feeding mother and I did not feel as if I was looked down on.

There is the occasional thread that gets het up and imvho it is generally people being nasty about smug breastfeeders and offering factually incorrect information that STARTS the debacle.

VERY occasionally there is an idiot who starts an offensive thread about breastfeeding and most people tell them they are being a twat.

Mostly it is people being helpful. I have never seen anyone mention re lactivation.

But hey, lets just have a go nonetheless.