To think you should be able to sue your mum if you weren't breastfed

[Richocet]

and have suffered health consequences that could have been prevented by breastfeeding?

Hmm, I was bf for 3 months; my sister not at all. Whilst my mother was sadly lacking in giving me solids at 3 months and not ebf until 6, do I have as much right to sue as my sister? She is shorter than me, so maybe she's got cause to.

If I don't bf dd as long as ds, can she sue me?

Can I sue the DCs for stretch marks, sleepless nights, early mornings, messy house, huge tits and having to do the school run?

If not then they can feck off if they think they can sue me!!

Yes Richocet, - I could do that, but given that its a dumb idea, (like yours is), I won't.

Maybe those that struggled should divert their anger at the support that failed them?

I shall be passing on DS's suing documents to the paedeatrician who recommended I bf him then, Obviously, I won;t be able to pay him as I went part time at work to spend quality time with in his early years, and then provide him with a sibling .

I shall be suing both DC for the scars from the emcs that saved their lives.
And the weeks in bed with hyperemisis, and the Wonder StuffLevellers ticket I wasn't able to use because of this. That's £20 DD owes me.

(Anna- I didn't think you actually would dear)

sorry, the paed who recommended I
ff him.

Oh and how much compensation will I get for my broken wrist from standing on a toy on the stairs in the middle of the night that DS1 had left there?

It fucking hurt!

Would you rather she hadn't fed you at all if she was ubable to breastfeed? Asking as a perfectly healthy adult grown from formula fed baby.

You could probably use the paed as a witness in your defence.

I'm not sure that my mum can defend the irn bru case though. Even in the early 80s she must've known that irn bru is not good for babies. She alleges that I refused to drink any milk (I don't think she breastfed me for that long, I was on the baby rice at 8 weeks or something) so she had to give me irn bru.

I'm going to sue my mum because I have brown eyes. My Dad has blue, so it's clearly her fault.

I'll let you all know how it goes.

Where there's blame there's a claim Clytaemnestra

My bio mum gave me up for adoption so I could have a better life

Which I did

Daft cow never thought that my adoptive mum couldn't bf.
Alas, she was more concerned that I be provided for and LOVED which IMO is more important than bf.

I haven't bf either as I suffer from anxiety and had panic attacks when the baby wouldn't latch and the baby would get distressed too. Sorry I'm not willing to risk my mental health

This reminds me of that vile thread ages ago where the OP suggested a breast feeding campaign along the lines that if you got breast cancer because you didn't breast feed well you pretty much deserved it. It was the most vile thread and funnily enough the OP couldn't understand people's outrage at her "ponderings".

What about my 2 episiostomies? Somebody should pay for those.

"Obviously, I won;t be able to pay him as I went part time at work to spend quality time with in his early years, and then provide him with a sibling ."

At what age do the children get to sue?

Some days I think my 3 year old would like to sue me for providing her with the ball of destruction that is DD2.

"Your honour, she smashes my stuff, she spoils my carefully constructed games, she is unfailingly jolly in the morning, I have to share my Mom with her!"

hmmm parenting choices....

So I think you should definitely be able to sue if your parents neglected you.

I think you should be able to sue if they injured you in a car crash when you weren't properly restrained.

I think you should be able to sue ANYBODY how exposes you continually to a carcinogenic substance for their own gratification so that's a yes to smoking parents both before birth and after.

But BF/FF....well I don't know. I don't think you can sue someone for putting you at twice the risk of cot death. Coz if you are alive to sue then it didn't by definition hurt you.....

Probably THE most ignorant OP I have ever read on MN, not sure it really warrants a response but anyway...

I breastfed both of mine til they were one and am very pro-breastfeeding. But there are many reasons why people don't BF - and maternal choice is one of those, in my book.

BTW, I was exclusively bottle-fed and apart from a back injury and a miscarriage, have had about 2 days off work in total in 27 years, and was only ever off school with chicken-pox, and after an operation.

lilo are you kidding? You obviously dont get out and about on AIBU much...this is pretty mild for BF/FF....

hear hear soupdragon

I don't know... It could be a great idea insofar as it could convert the entire economy to one based around litigation. Everyone could sue everyone else for everything all of the time.

I'm going to start by sueing my sister for burying my skeleton doll somewhere on Blackpool beach when i was about 7. He was new and we couldn't find him again. Scarred me for life that did.

Richocet Thu 15-Mar-12 10:52:27
"Maybe those that struggled should divert their anger at the support that failed them?"

But what if it wasn't the lack of support that failed?

In my case, I had plenty of support from a health service totally committed to breastfeeding, I was myself totally committed to breastfeeding and had plentiful supplies of milk. The only weak link was dd who would not suckle.
We later found out that this was due to a chronic condition which is difficult to diagnose this young; at the time, health professionals were raising concerns about her weight which I ignore, being so committed to breastfeeding.

There is every reason to believe that if I had realised that breastfeeding was not compatible with her physique and given formula, her health in those early days would have been a lot better. But according to you, that would make her eligible for suing me.

I want to know how you are meant to know if the health problems were caused by FF?

DS1 was fully FF and DS2 was BF until 16 weeks then FF. DS2 certainly gets a lot more coughs, colds etc than DS1 does.