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!

I think its a custard lemony experience commonly used in a tart. Im not a fan. Good job at that price!

hmm well the value stuff tastes of sugar....I think it might have...eggs in it

Do you think a warning ought to be placed upon the Lemon Curd?

Cooked eggs, surely?!
I'll give it a miss I think.

TBH I think the value jam may be even cheaper per kcal....but we aren't common....

Oh dear, me thinks somebody has lost credibility.

Lemon curd is divine.

Well, I like marmite! Also strawberry jam.

(I spent a few weeks of pregnancy unable to eat anything except two crumpets with marmite on, and frozen peas. Yet I did not lose weight, (I gained some slightly) and the babies continued to lengthen in limb. I attribute this to the wonders of marmite! Or, you know, metabolic changes. Whatever.)

I normally just lurk on these threads but want to wade into this ridiculous debate and point out this gem from whatmeworry:

"Eating the cheapest form of calorie all the time for the baby, and keeping the expensive calories for yourself seems to be the counter-argument"

Which seems to say that she thinks a breastfeeding woman's body only uses the additional 500 calories to make the milk. So if a woman is eating a balanced diet of 1500 calories with vegetables, meat etc but then chooses to eat those extra 500 calories (which she doesn't actually need) in lemon curd, peanut butterr etc then her milk is solely made from the extra 'crap'? And she's accusing other people of 'woo'! Your body uses prts of all of your calorific intake to make the milk. So if you're eating a balanced diet anyway then a few more empty calories (mmmm cake) will make very little difference to your overall health or ability to make milk (which tiktok and entropygirl have clearly explained doesn't rely on amount of calories in anyway). I love the thought my breasts somehow have a triage system - calories from apple? Sorry go somewhere else; calories from lemon curd? Yes please!

That was per day, during those weeks, actually. Quick clarification.

emNZ

In any case, a breastfeeding mother's diet can be pretty crap and yet it won't affect the quality of her milk. Malnourished women in famine-ridden countries manage, after all...

Thats a shame as I think breastfeeding rates would only improve if breastmilk was made of cake.

breastfeed - eat more cake! like it Pickles35 :)

pickles stop it or I might go into early labour...

And all this debate about preserves is making me hungry. Peanut butter and jam for me please.

We could have bf versus bf fights on the forum! Women could look down their noses, and list what they'd eaten that day, in addition to their normal diet!

Then they could sneer at each other's lists! If we add mud and bikinis, we could put it on satellite tv!

What is pregnancy if not supersize-me-land ?

Its definitely the way forward, you could boast at how much those extra calories cost you. It could go global.

Start a new thread, I am DISGUSTED at breastfeeding women getting extra calories through Lemon Curd and Rola Cola, AIBU?

Sit back and wait. Phew!

Can I just suggest a lemon curd and banana sandwich for those who haven't tried it? Could go one right now actually...

stillor I'm not sure I understand the time aspect. It is far faster for me to either BF or express, than to prepare a bottle and then feed.

So If I was self-employed I would consider BFing to be time saving not wasting.

Well with ff you don't always have to be the one to make the feeds, I've yet to have a baby who will let dp bf them

Still I agree that workplaces and jobs affect whether breastfeeding is possible, but the previous debate of this thread was a rather narrow one. In context, "low financial cost" was discussing dietary intake.

stillor you know perfectly well (surely) that I was talking in the same terms as whatme - the cost of the food. The whole context of my post, and the discussion, made this clear. Crystal clear

Breastfeeding for 6 mths exclusively may well impact on someone's employment and ability to earn money, whatever class they are from, if they return to work. Do you really think I need that spelling out to me? Sheesh.....you are clutching at straws in your attempt at debate.

You have no idea what class I am from, what my own paid employment status is, and whether I bf because of or despite it.

Ahh right, self-employed but NOT working from home...sorry I didn't realise.

Is that really the case, that most self-employed people don't work from home? I thought it was a big selling point of self-employed?

I went back to work at 4 months but got by mostly on expressing in the evenings.