to list stuff that makes me go hmm

[ItPaysToBuyGoodTea]

n/c as I'm not normally controversial! But feel like it today. There's a lot of stuff I read on here that makes me go hmm. You know things that are said with authority but I am not so sure. I'm not saying they're definitely not true, but I do get a bit twitchy when I read them. Eg the one I've just read about purees delaying speech (DD is BLW but out of sheer laziness not because I'm worried about this!) and

-It's just as easy to choke on purees as it is finger foods.
-Food is fun before they're one
-Babies' gag reflexes are further forward than ours
-Breastfed babies are less fussy as they've tried a variety of food tastes via breastmilk

Oh I can only think of food related ones right now (must be hungry) but I've seen loads more!

and your aibu is?

Wasn't it just normal for our mums when we were babies to use purees? We all manage to speak just fine or maybe that is why we post on a forum because we never got the hang of speaking

It's just another thing for people to feel bad/smug about.

The one that makes me go hmm in education is

'they all even out in the end'

Yes, because all adults have the same intelligence and educational attainments. Pfft.

virginia...to, um..list stuff tenuous

Also hmm about the horror if anyone starts weaning before 6 months. Here, in Australia, the advice have recently gone back to weaning between 4and 6 months because there is NO evidence that weaning after 6 months is beneficial. In fact the evidence is starting to suggest that late weaning is associated with allergies.

couldn't you find chat?

What makes me go hmm, is when people say that you don't need to bother tutoring or teaching your children from an early age. I disagree with that. Even if you pay for a tutor or do it yourself, I think children need to be constantly learning and enjoy learning from an early age so that it becomes part of their nature and not something they run away from.

couldn't you find a life [runs]

oh another food one I read was BF babies cope better with BLW than FF'd ones as their jaws are more developed eh?

"All food brands/produce are actually the same, just different packages, really. They come from the same factory/farms and you're a numpty for paying more"

Yeah, sure.

PoppyAmex I have worked in a factory that packaged fresh food like mince and diced beef and it was same stuff, different packaging. I also worked in a factory bottling vodka and whiskey and the cheap stuff you see is same stuff but different labels.

That is true, Naked, I agree.

I'm sure that's true Naked in those cases (although I don't see why diced and mince wouldn't be the same raw material) but the fact is most of the time you can taste the difference in shit products.

Wish it wasn't the case as it would be cheaper and nicer but it is.

When I read "n/c as I'm not normally controversial! But feel like it today."

I thought this thread was going to be a tad more interesting

But you name changed to list some foods and inform us that you're not saying they're definitely not true, but you get a bit twitchy?

Who the hell are you? I demand to know!

We may have to hunt you down and type you to death across the internet....

I wasnt breastfed, nor did my mum do BLW.. and I was weaned on jars too..

I was never a fussy eater, and I was an early talker who never shut up..

You were weaned on jars squeaky?

Didn't the glass get stuck in your throat?

You're well 'ard you

worra yes I know, I realised it was a bit shit in the controvery stakes, but I'm normally a naice girl who doesn't start bunfights - look I couldn't even properly manage one this time. Fight, all of you, please, I demand it

And...um...formula is healthier than breastmilk. Cots are prison cells. Slings are dangerous. Dummies are like crack. Gina Ford is my God [head spins] - SO THERE!!

I'm an awfully fussy eater. I was formula fed and given baby rice/rusks in my bottle from like a month of age and then started on solids at around three months.. You'd be lynched if you did any of the above (minus ffing of course) now! But mum said thats what was advised at that time for big hungry babies, oh and sugar water for colic..

I do find it a bit that weaning is now from 6 months+ when it was always 4 months for absolutely yonks and none of us are ill or dead (certainly not because of that), and baby foods still all say 4 months+ so it can't be that dangerous..

I'm with you, I BF and BLW because i'm lazy.

Just seing BLW makes me go hmm...

Tbf cots do look like prison cells

My own personal bugbear is anyone raving about hypnobirthing. "Honestly it really works"

DOES IT FUCK!

My opinion - most people who say it worked had textbook labours anyway. All the fecking rainbow relaxation in the world did nothing soon as that fuckwit nice medical person dived in with both hands and manually turned DD1 who was evidently attempting a last minute breech delivery, Tom Daley style

Worst £200 I've ever spent!

oh the medical person and DD were both diving, must have been the pairs event

The BF/chewing one is true, because a BF baby "chews" the boob to get the milk, rather than sucking

Hmm, stuff that makes me go hmm....

I started weaning mine at around 8 weeks. They have survived - thrived I would say! All grown up now. FF 2 of them and only BF the other 2 for 4 weeks.

I know I should be locked up but things wuz different then.

Oh and my mum fed my sister evaporated milk out of a bottle cos she was small and the midwife told her to!

My Hv told me that research shows that if you wean a baby too soon it can give them allergies to certain foods as their digestive system isnt ready for anything other than bf or ff until 6 months.

Whether its true is a different story. :)