To know that I couldn't be friends with this person.

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Hard hat on and ready for the flaming to commence

However I also hate regular baby on board signs so I'm slightly biased! Always figured that was given away by the car seats with children in...

It doesn't raise awareness. It just divides.

You know what would help bfing rates? Honesty. I was told 'you just whap a boob out' 'it's so easy, much easier than faffing with bottles'. No one tells you about cluster feeding, tongue tie, mastitis, thrush, exhaustion, what happens if your period returns, breast refusal, how to supplement and then wean off of supplementing solely on to bf. It's just 'breastfeeding will make your baby healthier, more intelligent and they will never be ill'. It's crap. And I speak as a breastfeeding mum. Arm mums with the truth and fewer will feel like they are failing when they run into problems or find it tough.

Urgh... smugalicious.

But WTF is a "Lucky breastfed baby"?! Do the boobs dispense chocolate flavoured milk?!

I'm all for "baby on board" signs as they'll be useful in severe car crashes. A friend of mine has a decal that says her daughter is non verbal, again purely for an accident POV.

This just seems like a goady fucker!!

You know what would help bfing rates? Honesty

Agreed.

Totally smug, maybe I should have a sign 'Couldn't BF but pumped my arse off for all 3 of my babbers, can you tell'.
No, my kids were fed as best I could and in the playground you cannot tell who is BF or formula fed.
Might have some issues here that one day I should deal with 😑

Carefullyairbrushed There's raising awareness in a non-judgmental, educational manner giving ALL the facts - i.e. the bloody cracked-nipple, mastitis, failure to latch, name your bfing downside - and there's this kind of airy smug twattishness that makes women feel like failures if they so much as think about admitting it's not as universally bloody easy as it's made out to be.

As for that fucking sanctimonious bollocks embroidered on whatever that item is - I couldn't be friends with that parent either. Give me a fucking break.

Oooo I want one, ds who is 15 would be mortified, well worth everyone else thinking I'm a wanker!

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I'd love to have one which said "my kids hit the bottle from day one".

and this would be important information for a tiny baby.
I think any competent paediatric nurse could deal with this and I don't think formula BF is a major issue if you are dealing with life threatening conditions.

whasername

Yes, yes a million times yes.

And that goes for pregnancy and birth too. Far too much sugar coating and incorrect information in everything from antenatal classes onwards. I was asked to give feedback on antenatal classes and they were put out when I said 'if almost half of first time births need help/intervention, why on earth aren't you saying hey so this can occur, and this is how we deal with it' because otherwise women expect that everyone can breathe a fucking baby out to whale music or whap out a. Ooh and feed effortlessly. If we were told of the common problem and resources to deal with them then that would help so much
Women aren't delicate flowers, we need to know what can go wrong and how best to deal with it when /if it does - without that there's no informed consent, no informed choices and too much pressure.

It makes me quite cross

I breastfed my 14 year old son. Should I get him a sticker for his school bag? I feel sure he would thank me.

intergalacticbrexitdisco I doubt he would want the world to know he's still breastfeeding

Raising awareness of what exactly? Do other road users really need to know the car in front is driven by some twat with a superiority complex?

Agreed whats. It would also help if a minority of breast feeding parents didn't go around promoting the bullshit idea that it has any connection to how good a mother you are.

There are lots of things I have done, or do, as a parent that I am rightly proud of. The fact I lactated in a manner that met my baby's nutritional needs isn't one of them.

Love the word "norks!"

Linoleum - it didn't last long - cracked nipples and sleep deprivation had me reaching for the SMA Gold. Poor, unlucky DS1 :)

I breastfed my 14 year old son. Should I get him a sticker for his school bag? I feel sure he would thank me.

Make sure nappy type and sleeping arrangements are mentioned on the sticker, too. This might raise awareness for the more eco-friendly cloth nappy and the solid attachment to mummy he's formed . He'll love you for it.

I find it hard to judge driver of the OP's smugmobile any harder than I judge the parents with " Princess on Board","Lil' Man on Board", "Little Miss Trouble on Board" or any of the 1000001 wanky things parents put on the back of their cars.

Bet she's great fun 😐

I forgot about cracked nipples! I learned more on here than I ever did in antenatal. With dd1, I needed help when my milk didn't come in. I needed someone to explain how to encourage supply and supplement in the short term. Someone to tell me to make a nest and tell dh to feed me rather than just carry on as normal. Someone to tell me to tell mil and my mum to bugger off so I could sit with my boobs out. And I really needed someone to tell me that it was absolutely ok to ff my dd, that she was perfect and how I fed her did not denote how good a mum I was. Instead i just got 'oh its easy' 'bottle feeding is a faff' and then signed off and left alone. Successfully bfing dd2 helped me put my daemons to bed, because I realised that despite me feeding successfully, it wasn't the be all and end all, didn't make me a better mum and dd2 was just as perfect as dd1.

They will always find a way to monetise infant feeding, won't they? If they can't sell people formula then they will flog them stickers.

Isn't it just a promotional sticker for a breastfeeding support group? Not sure what all the fuss is about.