Aibu? to be pissed off at this: "The cost and social implications of using an infant milk should be considered when deciding how to feed your baby."

[Selyna]

WTF do Hipp mean by social implications?

Both methods of feeding a baby are acceptable so fuck off with the whole acting like ff is poison! my dd is perfectly fine but i hate this constant making me feel like a failure because i failed to bf although i tried so so hard!

Bollocks - I'll use whatever phrase I see fit to use. if you don't like it, you don't have to use it, but as a free adult I reserve the right to select my own words

I assumed it meant the ease in which you can BF against the ease of FF. I have done both and it was much easier to BF on the go than FF. Also, a lot of places are so funny about warming up bottles.

If you feel ff is a perfectly acceptable choice, then ignore what it says on the tin and go right ahead.
It's a legal requirement for the manufacturers to do this, otherwise they wouldn't intimate anything which could be taken negatively and affect their sales.

I don't think BFing is necessarily cheaper. Sure you save 10 pound a week on formula, but there is a lot of other stuff you need to keep yourself clean and presentable, and if you express milk, that comes with some investments as well.

I don't understand social implications, I don't think either choice is unsociable.

"but there is a lot of other stuff you need to keep yourself clean and presentable"

Like what?

I used shower gel and washing powder to keep myself "clean and presentable". Pretty much the same as I do now I'm not breastfeeding.

If there is a choice, as opposed to there not being one, why shouldn't people be encouraged to htink carefully before they make that choice?

If you know there was no choice (ie you couldn't bf), what the fuck does it matter?

whatmeworry BF is far cheaper than FF - you need to consume a couple of hundred more calories a day so akin to a couple of extra pieces of toast

As a rule of thumb it costs about £1 per 500 calories if you eat it yourself, (less if you get them from crisps and coke, more from organic broccoli and carrots) , so about £7/week.

Just looking at Tescos website its about £9 for a tin of infant feed, that lasted us for about a week on average from my memory.

So, not as huge a difference as made out....

But let us live in the real world, pretence helps no one.

BF IS best, if possible, and it is a lot cheaper and a lot less faff.

Soupdragon - breastpads, nursing bras, Lansinoh.... especially in the early weeks there might be a whole variety of things you need/want to buy in order to ease BFing.

Joyful, I think that people who set out to make other people feel bad about a perfectly legitimate choice, when they are already at a vulnerable stage in their lives, are ignorant and intolerant. They take a view that ff = bad mother, Therefore the description seems apt.

Don't you wear a bra anyway?
Breastpads aren't expensive at all, especially if you use washable one.
One tube of Lansinoh (or similar) goes a very very long way.

The costs are minimal compared to formula feeding.

IME BF was waay more of a faff than FF.

Everyone's experiences are different. I don't see why people still disagree!

It is a consideration though. I couldn't have afforded to formula feed my DS1 as a teenage single mum I could barely afford nappies and my mum fed us. I would have been up shit creek if I had not breast feed.

That would annoy me and I did breast feed. As does the idea that breast milk is free - only if women's time is valued at zero pence per hour is it free.

Deciding to bf is, for many, a huge commitment. I wanted to make the commitment but paid a big price for it in terms of stress and anxiety (I found it very difficult).

I'm sure the statement was made with good will but why the hell should stressed out mothers consider the social implications of how they feed their child? Do they stamp that on burgers? Please consider the social and economic implications of this quarter pounder before you eat it? No because most grown adults are considered to be responsible for their own decisions. Only mothers are asked to take into account the needs of society as a whole when they decide to purchase a box of formula.

Also the cost was irrelevant to me. I think I would have had a bank loan to get Formula milk I was that desperate!

Oh sure, costs of BFing will vary from person to person, but, when I did it, it wasn't exactly 'free'. Especially if you have problems at the start, you might end up buying a few things to help you out.

Not going into a FF vs. BF debate, as I've done both and really don't think it's worth making mothers feel miserable about, but just saying, 'free' isn't my experience of BFing.

And I didn't have feeding bras or cream or breast pads I used kitchen roll but luckily didn't leak much.

I might be repeating what other people have said but you know how teh alcohol industry have started to put "Drink safe" message on booze? Apparently this is to stop the government insisting in the future that alcohol should have cigarette style warnings on like "Drinking kills"

Obviously formula is not harmful like alcohol and fags (I ff all 3 of my kids and would ff a 4th child) but the official line on ff is that "Breast is best" and the "Social implications" is a clumsy way to say that and mix in "Certain people will hoik their judgey-pants."

Personally I think it's weird and perhaps it was packaging translation gone wrong.

It should say 'health' implications, as we all know they exist, not 'social' implications.