to think this is the most ridiculous article about breastfeeding I have ever read!?

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Sorry if this has already been posted about (only had a quick skim....) and I know, I know, it's a DM link and I shouldn't expect any better but seriously....WTF!?

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-2642045/The-great-myth-breastfeeding-weightloss-New-mothers-told-breastfeeding-shift-post-pregnancy-tum-In-fact-did-OPPOSITE-women.html

So many things wrong with this - the assumption that the top priority of all new mothers is/should be losing weight, the fact most women who want to breastfeed want to do it for the benefit of their child etc etc.

Am I just being oversensitive here?

YADNBU! I read this and felt so bloody cross. Although to be fair it's the daily mail so I'd expect no less-it's the newspaper that hates women after all. Phrases like 'breastfeeding propaganda' make me want to scream!!

This really angered me, such awful journalism. All based on three women's experiences. Shocking.

Pfft, breast feeding seemed to help me drop the baby chubs!

Stupid article but ut us the daily mail so it kind of goes without saying. Don't feed the Trolls National newspaper!

*it is!

It's nothing to do with any article but my friends mum told me to put jam on my nipples to get my baby to like my milk!

I was horribly sick in my pregnancies so was the same weight or lower after giving birth as when I conceived but I put on 3stone each time I breast fed. I would not for one minute suggest that I am the norm but I did very much resent the patronising, sneering approach of health visitors and medical staff who implied that I didn't understand nutrition and was sitting around all day eating biscuits. I think an awareness that our bodies are all different and women may react differently to breast feeding is a good thing for those women made to feel like oddities

There is a fine line between encouragement and propaganda and sometimes breastfeeding information crosses that. We need healthy and realistic awareness

Stupid article and thoroughly unscientific. Shame it may well put some women off breastfeeding who would otherwise consider it. Of course everyone is individual and their body responds differently to different changes, but this article is just plain scaremongering. Grrr...!

I get very skinny (not a good look for me) breastfeeding but don't know if it's down to the breastfeeding or the not having much time to eat/rushing up and downstairs getting things/ constantly seeing to a waking baby/walking them round in a sling. I was having to down a cup of complan a day just to ensure I was getting sufficient calories/nutrients.

I'm i honestly the only woman who hasn't the faintest idea what she weighed before, after or during either of her PGs and really couldn't care less.

Yes I'm two dress sizes bigger than when I got married, but that has happened with age, cooking proper meals as a proper married grown up person, having a DH who likes biscuits and moving somewhere where you drive everywhere.

I haven't the foggiest idea what part PG and years and years of BFing played in this.

I stand on a pair of scales once a year for my pill check, that's it.

The DM seems to have a slightly weird anti-breastfeeding stance. Every time I google a BF question I come across a DM article with a title like "Breast fed babies are MORE likely to cry, study shows!" or "Experts say formula may actually be BETTER for babies". Or if not that then something like "Research shows babies left to cry for hours in a darkened room are HAPPIER!" Always with the random caps and, if I can be bothered to click through, some totally spurious "expert".

It seems to be editorial policy for some reason. Can't imagine why.

I thought the lady with the baby called Holly looked lovely and not fat in the slightest.

I'm sure I could dig out some skinny pictures of myself from years ago as they have. They all seem a lot older now, one of them is on her third child, of course they are finding it harder to lose weight! I could eat what I liked when I was younger and not gain weight, not now though. I'm sure that's the same for us all as we get older isn't it?
(If you are a 60 yo who can still fit into her old school uniform and eats 12 doughnuts a day I don't want to know ).

Much as I hate to support the DM I have to say that I didn't start to lose weight until I stopped breastfeeding (at 18 months).

BUT - what has that got to do with anything?! What a stupid article.

i was told that breastfeeding would take the weight off when i was pregnant in fact some midwives promoted it when i couldn't produce milk i was told off that i would be a fatty and i needed to breastfeed i pointed out my baby needed to be fed more and diets can wait

i actually lost my baby weight quite quickly but it was due to my thyroid going overactive nothing more especially with the amount of chocolate i ate trying to stay awake

It's a terrible article. However my above and beyond useless health visitor used the "you will lose weight" line as part of her bullying campaign to make me continue breastfeeding. I didn't lose weight until I stopped.

I didn't stop because I thought I would lose weight. I stopped as breastfeeding was taking almost every hour of the day, baby was not putting on weight, I was depressed, exhausted and suffering from mastitis which wouldn't clear up.

Useless health visitor's suggestion when I asked about how to move to bottles as I was going back to work full time was to suggest I could easily express enough to see him through the day. This despite the fact I'd told her expressing produced almost nothing.

Oh and to cap it all she refused to give me any information or advice about bottle feeding.

So sorry a bit of a rant but it would have been nice to get some balanced information on the pros and cons of bf and some realistic help.

Am actually quite surprised that they printed a photo of a woman breastfeeding and looking just normal and quite sweet. Don't they usually try to make out that you can't breastfeed in public without stripping to the waist and waving your boobs about in M&S cafe?

Totally agree that BF is not for everyone - either by choice or because of pain/supply/latch etc. Totally. Just really hate the implication that all we should be thinking about as new mothers is our waistline. reaches over 5 month old child for 17th chocolate biscuit of the day

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Oh crumbs. Now it's posted twice!

..but it doesn't make everyone lose weight and it is something now accepted as a truth that it does because of the crappy nhs leaflets.