To think Jamelia is a nut job

[Boudica1990]

Loose Women today, Jamelia has decided in her wisdom that breast feeding should be compulsory.

WTAF?!

Pretty sure women should be able to dictate what they do with their own breasts!!!

Yes we all know breast feeding is better, but some choose and I emphasise CHOOSE to formula feed, and you know what's that's fine also, but can you really force women to use their body in a way they just simply don't want to??

I read something about that maybe on here is there not some prescrition formula they csn get but it needs orderd in

It's ridiculous to even contemplate the idea that a woman can't be in control of her own body, let alone open your trap and let such drivel pour out like diarrhea.

YANBU.

Jamelia is the worst thing to happen to Loose Women in my humble opinion - and that is saying something!

I never used to watch it, but some of the presenters/panellists who have either joined or re-joined I do quite like (Linda Robson, Kaye Adams, Claire Richards to name a few) and I am actually finding myself quite liking Ruth Langsford after years of totally avoiding This Morning on a Friday (it's clearly Eamonn that's the problem there then) .

Some of Jamelia's other views on parenting are also 'interesting' to say the least. I get the impression she has been fortunate enough to have two very well behaved DDs and her own way most of the time.

mrswinni

I think you're being unnecessarily rude.

I'm not on my high horse. I just do not appreciate someone who has NEVER breastfed a baby telling me that BF is weird and wrong. That it physically feels wrong, repulses them and they do not like the feel of the milk letting down all of this while i am sitting down breastfeeding my child.

I wouldn't see a mother bottle feeding, take a seat and express how i feel it is totally wrong, unnatural and makes me feel sick. But by your logic if it makes me feel that way (for the record it doesn't) then i should just go ahead and say so because why the fuck not?

I think instead of forcing women to breastfeed - which is a bloody stupid idea - we should be putting resources into helping women who want to breastfeed but struggle with it and give up quickly when a bit of targeted support could have made it work. The help just isn't there, it's such a lottery. My DD1 had a slight tongue tie and I had a mad overactive let-down - it was really hard work. If it hadn't been for a clued-up community MW who really knew her stuff, I would have given up after a couple of weeks.

Instead she monitored the tongue tie, which did loosen of its own accord by day 10, and showed me alternative feeding positions which spread the pressure over both sides of the nipple and stopped DD from refusing my right side and by 2 weeks we were feeding with no issues and never looked back. That kind of support is priceless, and the majority of women don't get it. The majority of women want to breastfeed - let's focus on making it work for them and leave the ones who don't to make their own choices. This is a free country.

I think instead of forcing women to breastfeed - which is a bloody stupid idea - we should be putting resources into helping women who want to breastfeed but struggle with it and give up quickly when a bit of targeted support could have made it work. The help just isn't there

Absolutely pointythings
I tried and tried with DS, he just would not latch. I kept at it for as long as I could and begged for help which just never came. I felt like an utter utter failure that I couldnt even do the most basic thing for my son.

Oh and Jamelia is nutcase.

I am very pro breastfeeding and wish more woman would but I don't think anyone should be pressured into doing so,..Encouraged?, certainly, but never made to feel they have to.

I didn't see it but wish I had because it sounds like one of things you have to see it to believe it!! Sounds like she came out with a load of crap - don't people realise the upset and offence they cause by making such uneducated comments about what can be a sensitive topic.

She should get together with Katie Price who said the other day that 'there is nothing attractive about a pregnant woman & they look disgusting'!!!

I wish these type of people kept their opinions to themselves just for the sake of a headline!!

She is just awful, I cannot watch her open her mouth without wanting to scream at the TV - she's like a less articulate Katie Hopkins.
Ironically, the single thing guaranteed to put me off breastfeeding would be someone telling me I MUST do it.

Poor dear really isn't the brightest button in the box is she? Did she have anything genius to say about how she would enforce it?

I'm pro breast feeding....but dear lord that idea is just nuts! Women can feed their babies how ever the hell they like!

And I think those who choose to ff for whatever reason already have enough guilt and pressure piled upon them as it is!

Absolutely squishysquirmy People shoving breastfeeding down my throat (erm, no pun intended)when I was PG was precisely what made me almost not give it a go. Now I'm a bit militant about its benefits - but people who think it should be enforced are completely nuts and do the pro-BF'ing movement no favours whatsoever, in fact, quite the reverse.

Poor Jamelia though. Poor anybody who feels compelled to go on that dog's breakfast of a television show. It's almost like it was cooked up by the staunched misogynist alive in a covert effort to make women say ridiculous things and further divide them. It makes me weep.

My midwife was probably nodding along if she was watching that.

Saw her on Monday. She asked if I was going going to bf again, I said yes.

Then later on she was talking about something and said 'if you choose to ff for any reason' and then broke off pretend spit on the desk....

I told her I might do actually just to make her squirm

chunderella

she saw me BF and went into a thats wrong.. repulsive etc rant to which i sarcastically replied ' oh so you're not planning on breastfeeding then'

her: no it's repulsive i hate it, I hate the feel of the milk coming out and i find it really weird

me: but how can you hate the feel of the milk coming out when you are yet to give birth to your first child so you havent even got any milk yet.

her: Because i know i don't like the feel of it. i just KNOW.

I've chosen to formula feed my breasts probably work perfect fine and I have no psychological aversion to breast feeding. Do I feel guilty? Nope

I know the benefits of breast feeding but personally I just prefer to formula feed, it also suits the family set upbetter. It allows for shared night feeds and dad and baby can bond over feeding.

I was a formula fed baby, I'm fine. My brother and mother were breast fed babies, both have hayfever, cat and dog allergies and mild peanut allergies. My mum's sister formula fed, same as me no issues. So perhaps for me.first hand experience says breast is not best in our family.

LadyNexus: That's awful! She actually pretended to spit on the desk?

I am very pro-breastfeeding, but only when its right for the mother and baby. Breast may be "best", but formula saves lives in extreme cases, and in others it spares women from physical and emotional pain.

Unbelievable isn't it!

Why are people 'pro'- any type of feeding for anyone but themselves? Why do we take such an interest in how other people feed their babies? Unless it is your job to be a breastfeeding counsellor or a scientist, why can't people just feed their babies how they choose to (or have to), without the fear of anyone being pro- or against the way they feed?

I'm not sure actually Moomin, hadn't thought about it before. Just called myself pro breast feeding because I'd done it and liked the benefits.

But I think ff is just a valid choice as bf sooo....guess I'm pro feeding babies?

Haha it wasn't aimed at anyone in particular LadyNexus, I know that when most people say they're pro-bf or pro-ff, they mean in relation to their own babies... but I know some people who call themselves pro-bf and they're so millitant about it, they're adamant that formula feeders are poisoning their babies

I like pro feeding babies now the people who don't feed their babies.. they're the ones we need to sort out