To think this isn't very supportive? Bottle feeding related.

[RainbowInACloud]

Went to have DS weighed today at local surestart and there was a huge display as you walked in. The centre piece was a rubbish bin with a sign saying 'bottles and dummies here' and some leaflets around it about breastfeeding being the best etc.
I am EBF DS but it struck me as a bit judgemental maybe about people that bottle feed. It's meant to be a supportive environment but I think if I were bottle feeding it might have made me feel a bit rubbish.
I asked for advice on how to get DS to take a bottle as he flatly refused but was kind of just told breast feeding is best etc., no real need for him to take a bottle. It's not a big issue for me so I didn't push it.
What do you think about that display?

So you walk in with a (say) 4 month old baby, throw away your bottles and then what? Suddenly start producing Milk again?1
Mental.

I like it. Formula is 'rubbish'.

Breast milk banks are available to women who genuinely cannot feed their baby.

And in agreement to another poster with regards to Bottle fed babies being obese in later life- I also think that's bollocks too! A big part when they are little is down to genes, my daughter is slim and lanky and is on the 75th percentile for height and moving higher up! She eats like a horse but I wouldn't say she's a particularly chubby baby, she's always around the 50th percentile for weight. Think the fact that she never keeps bloody still helps as well though!

oh ?? Are you being silly?

It is so sad reading some of these posts from women who have struggled for one reason or another. I BF one twin and FF the other who wouldn't latch on and was losing weight hand over fist. She was in hospital for two weeks until the midwives relented and said I should FF. Up until then it was horrific. I was so tired I was hallucinating. One fucking midwife was a total cow and kept banging on about how I shouldn't just 'give up'. My mum had to intervene in the end.

The whole thing was probably aimed at parents of children old enough to stop using dummies and bottles. Our sure start had something similar but made it clear that was the purpose. It sounds as though its badly displayed. There will be no ulterior motive to deride bottle feeding.

for all of you who had bad experiences with breastfeeding.
FWIW I have bf 2 of my children and bottle fed the other. Not an iota of difference in bonding, experience or childhood illness (so far) both have positives and negatives re: convenience but pretty equal experiences.

I actually cannot believe that such a display would actually be created! Apart from anything else many breast feeders use bottles and dummies. It sounds bizarre. I would be inclined to photograph it and make a strong complaint.

Well done Ohmy

I'm just ignoring ohmychrist as I'm not sure she is being genuine or sarcastic in her remarks. I'm hoping it's the latter

ohmychrist

The evidence isnt about obesity in toddlers though. It's about long term effects. I agree that is difficult to gain concrete evidence from epidemiological studies but equally extrapolating from what happened to your own children and trying to apply that to the whole population isnt all that useful

I'd probably walk in and exclaim on the top of my voice (in a accent similar to Nessa from Gavin and Stacey) "what the fuck is that about then?" but I have no tact .

It's a ridiculous concept and I would make a big issue about it and wouldn't have cared and probably never returned, I was in the depths of pnd after DS was a few weeks old and I would have had a complete emotional reaction to it.

Why are dummies included? I breast fed mine, but would have loved him to take a dummy at times as he was recommended one when he got a series of recurrent ear infections and our GP said it could help with the pain. Instead he used me for that, and nobody was here helping with my pain!

That is wrong on so many levels. I can't believe anyone anywhere thought that would be a good idea. No wonder people complain about feeling bullied

ohmychrist Seriously? They don't offer milk banks, the only way I have heard of that is for very ill babies in neonatal care units. I can tell you from the experience of having two children and failing to produce milk both times they offer you absolutely nothing.
I asked for help getting the baby to latch, a breast pump, medication to start milk production and to speak to a lactation consultant. Was refused on all counts. There is absolutely no help available, literally nothing. If you don't produce milk they look at you blankly and vaguely say 'well keep trying' as they walk away even though the baby is hysterical, wont latch on and not a drop of milk has been produced even with hand expressing.

I'm not being sarcastic. Formula is artificial and there's no question that breastfeeding is best for babies. The SureStart display is illustrating that.

A bottle amnesty? Like a knife amnesty?! Whatever next like a pp said what exactly are you meant to do once you have binned your bottles?? Hope that suddenly your breasts will miraculously produce milk? It sounds deliberately inflammatory to me.

My OH ended up intervening at the hospital with the very forceful midwife, he basically told her that I would not be breast feeding our baby, that we had bottles at home and that we would be taking our baby home that day (they basically made me hysterical by saying I wasn't allowed to go home until my DD could breastfeed properly, I was exhausted and upset about having to be kept away from my OH) that day he was like my knight in shining armour!

Yes that would make sense Make

If it's what shedding says its for then I can kind of see the logic.

If not I take it there's one there to pop boobs in if you've decided to ff.

Ridiculous And I breastfed five of mine.

Oh my Christ ....

What a load of crap

Ohmychrist you are seeing things as black and white. The breastfeeding / formula feeding issue is anything but.