To object to magazine - anti breastfeeding?

[gemma4d]

Read this and had to read it again - am I sleepdeprived or is this really anti-breastfeeding?

Jaundice, a yellowy tinge, is quite normal at 3-10 days of life because of a build up of waste products and am immature liver. It's very common in breastfed babies, causing floppiness, a change in crying and fits.

Soup ive never heard anyone who formula feeds say people were staring at them thus needing to challenge it. I have however heard people with the view formula feeding should NOT happen, you can deny that all you wish but many people have seen such comments with their own eyes on various debates on here.

You've not heard anyone say on here that they think people are judging them for formula feeding? Really? I must have imagined it all then. I've seen plenty of people say they felt judged for bringing out a bottle when others in, say, their NCT group were bf-ing

I don't see it as anti breast feeding. Alot of breast fed babies do get jaundice don't they? Mine did.

Personally no I haven't. No idea why you need to go on the defensive because of this but as you were..

Soup a question was asked yes but IMO the OP started a thread with the title To object to magazine - anti breastfeeding? which implies that she feels that the article is wrong to talk about BF in relation to an illness. The lines read this and read again indicates that the OP couldn't believe her eyes.
So, yes....the tone was OMG! Scandal!!!
IMO

Joric, I understood that not to be a scandalous re-reading, but to understand what the (badly written, confusing) sentence said.

I suppose that's the trouble with threads like this, it's very easy to read different things into it, and breastfeeding is an emotive subject to start with anyway.

Faver I agree, people do read threads differently.
I agree with both Bimbo
Why does everyone look for snipes regarding breastfeeding that just aren't there? Bit like the women who 'challenge those staring at them' when they breastfeed in public when they are just people who happen to have eyes that glance in their direction!
and you Faver
Bimbo, probably for the same reason people see snipes about formula which are not there and challenge people for staring at them bottle feeding/judging when they just happen to be looking that way.
People can be paranoid.

As the mother of a bf baby(at the time) with Jaundice who did go floppy,ended up in SCBU and was on the way to brain damage I say op YADBU.

There is no nice way of wording it or are we now supposed to not mention anything even slightly negative when discussing bf.

Would be nice if pro breast feeders paid as much attention to the wording of articles with formula in them but oh no ff mothers have to put up with continual over exaggerated scare mongering.

Seriously if jaundice was common in ff fed babies I can just see the headlines

Did you know there is a breastfeeding topic?

Inaccurate and misleading information aimed at a population of mothers who may already lack in-depth understanding and confidence in this way of feeding their babies is undermining of breastfeeding. In that sense can be said to be - in effect - anti breastfeeding.

So YANBU

Over-sensitive much? YABU.

Spud - only if it is done deliberately?

Maybe not. harmful though - but not anti ?

The whole point is that the symptoms are for jaundice as a whole. Not just breastfed jaundice. The way it is written makes it appear that the symptoms apply to breastfed jaundice only. Another way of looking at it is that a less well informed formula feeding mother may think it can't be happening to her baby because she isn't breastfeeding (less well informed about jaundice, not about baby feeding)

There is no sensationalism or scandal in the OP. I took it that she had read it and re read it to try to make sense of it, not in a Shock! horror! Way. This interpretation is inferred by the fact that she is sleep deprived and thinks this may have clouded her understanding of what was written.

"No idea why you need to go on the defensive because of this but as you were.."

And I've no idea why you needed to go on the attack but as you were...

The only thing wrong with it as far as I can see is it should say jaundice may cause floppiness, changes in crying and fits.

"Spud - only if it is done deliberately?"

I think it's very telling that such a glaring mistake should pass under the radar of a journalist and an editor responsible for disseminating information about the health and welfare of newborn babies. Shocking actually.

But then their wages are probably primarily paid by the huge wodge of advertising cash they get from the formula companies who take a large percentage of the advertising space in their magazines. (next time you buy one of these magazines - count how many full-page adverts there are for formula and bottlefeeding equipment. Compare it to the amount of space used up by advertising for breastfeeding related products).

Basically, they have fuck all interest in the topic of breastfeeding. They pay lip-service to the 'breast is best' message by having a single 'how to' article every few issues. But in every issue there'll be at least one, often more stories of a mother failing with breastfeeding, who it's often clear, had inadequate support or information. This is always given without comment or analysis, so encouraging women to feel that breastfeeding is intrinsically painful and difficult, and that breastfeeding failure is common and intractible.

I've stopped looking at these magazines now because the breastfeeding coverage is usually SO inadequate or downright misleading.

Spud - many magazine articles are sensationalist - sensationaistic Whatever the word is! I see what you mean.

Sensationalistic?