Sad Face in the paper.

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There's a story in a local rag about someone who's freezer has broken down. Apparently they had frozen 100 ounces of breast milk which had to be thrown out and is apparently 3 months worth?

Apparently £30 comp wasn't enough, cue sad faces and a story to the paper.

AIBU to think that the amount of people complaining to newspapers in an effort to get additional compensation is on the rise? And completely ridiculous?

www.kentonline.co.uk/canterbury/news/faulty-freezer-damages-breast-milk-132575/

Unless you've pumped you wouldn't understand. It's tedious and takes precious time away from being with your newborn. To go through all that for a faulty freezer would be gutting.

Meh once you ignore all the waffle, Currys sold them a faulty item, the delivery men did not do the job she paid for AND the only item Currys would replace with was 80£ more expensive. I mean that's not exactly stellar service is it?

She got £150 worth of shopping and a new freezer (which she should've got anyways) , she hardly broke the company in half.

"The Hamster" 😂😂😂 that has just made me choke on a malteser. Can I get compo?

I dont understand the "needing notice to remove the frozen stuff". Arent you supposed to wait 24 hours before switching on a freezer after transporting it? Or is that fridges?

Anyway, I love that she has clearly had her hair blow dried (babyliss big hair?), done her make up and made a proper effort to look like every middle class mum ever and her husband turned up looking like that! 😂😂😂

I could only pump for the first 6 weeks once I stopped encouraging I just didn't "let down" when expressing. I managed a litre - just enough to donate to the milk bank. I'd have been utterly gutted to bin it!!! Think hospital valued it at about £120 back then.

To be honest I would find that totally demoralising. Pumping breast milk is hardly a barrel of laughs. But I would have my sad face moment in private...don't think I'd write in to the local rag.

Seems pointless if she's freezing it anyway as it losses all the goodness.

Rubbish. Anyone thinking of BFing ignore this crap.

Oh FFS.

1. Agree with PP they are appalling attempts at sad faces. Baby's face is probably most accurate - "This is such a non story".

1. Breast milk if free, so why is she complaining? Does she want a badge of honour? "I pumped my jugs for all their worth" - £30 apparently.

1. Formula is not devils piss, stop making out like you are giving her poison.

1. No-one died, get a life

I suspect 3 months worth means it took her 3 months to pump that much, not that it is 3 months supply.

Breast milk if free, so why is she complaining? Does she want a badge of honour? "I pumped my jugs for all their worth" - £30 apparently.

Breast milk is free, replacing it obviously isn't! She had to buy Food for the baby to replace what was lost through no fault of her own. Of course she should be compensated for that!

1) They paid extra for an install but a freezer is just a plug and go thing, right?

Yes. The install involves taking away all the packaging, not dumping the product as near to your front door as possible and moving it into the kitchen where the purchaser wants it.

If you think that losing 100oz of breast milk is no big deal then you have clearly never been up all night pumping milk out for a seriously ill newborn who had to be tube fed because they were too ill to take the breast or bottle. Agreed that it's not 3 months worth though.

I think the 3 months refers to 3 months of pumping, rather than 3 months worth of feeds.

Why has that child got a beaded bracelet on?

Does the "3 month supply" perhaps relate to the amount of time she's spent building it up rather than the amount of time it's going to last into the future?

Presumably, the new freezer was going in the space occupied by the old one so they had to empty the old one before it arrived (hence the time window).

Understandably they're upset - all that effort and it's not like you can just pop to the shops and get some more.

Seems pointless if she's freezing it anyway as it losses all the goodness.
Funnily enough all the hospitals my newborn baby was in disagrees with you as I moved my pumped milk from hospital freezer to hospital freezer until my son could take it.

I assumed 3 months supply of milk as 3 months of extra pumping. I'd be bloody heartbroken and livid. It isnt a case of pumping more. She has no idea when her supply will dry up - I pumped exclusively and was dry by 6 months. I relied heavily on everything I had managed to freeze prior to that point.

They supplied a faulty item and consequently something that cannot be replaced was lost. A mothers milk is finite

The baby is 4 months old so 3 months ago would have been around 4 weeks which is when BF is supposed to be established and pumping can start.

Why has that child got a beaded bracelet on?

Amber teething bracelet.

Breast milk if free, so why is she complaining? Does she want a badge of honour? "I pumped my jugs for all their worth" - £30 apparently.
It isnt free but costs money to replace and cannot be bought. It was also time away from holding her baby, doing much around the house. 2 am wake ups because that's when your milk is apparently best. You might not have ever had to do it but surely you can scrape a little empathy for someone losing 3 months of hard work

Why would you pump 3 months supply? Doesn't the milk you produce change as baby gets older anyway? and why would you fill the freezer before checking it worked? whenever I've got a new freezer we've put a few cheap bits in, left it a day or two then stocked it up once we know its working.

Kent online is full of nonstories though, and often very one-sided reporting.

Sleeping No I can't. We've all had things happen to us. We just don't go running to the papers about it.

I repeat: no-one died.

Why would you pump 3 months supply?

You pump whatever you can while you can. There is no guarantee of when your milk will dry up or if you have to go into hospital and can't take the baby etc. Nobody knows what will happen and when BM is the only food your child can have it's important to have as much as you can in store. Just incase.

Why would you pump 3 months supply
I think it refers to having been freezing for 3 months not this will last specifically 3 months.

Doesn't the milk you produce change as baby gets older anyway? not enough to not do it

I repeat: no-one died yes because nothing less than death deserves empathy I'm not saying is have gone to the papers - I didbt when hospital left my frozen milk on the side and it defrosted before my son was even able to take milk. But I can at least empathize with why she's pissed off

You misinterpreted my post. Of course people deserve sympathy, but in the grand scheme of things. It would be like me saying: it rained on my washing so I'm going to claim compo from BBC News weather app for the extra cost of putting the dryer on.

The best thing to come out of this thread is the FB page of angry people in local newspapers.

It's nothing at all like it raining on your washing. Clearly. No-one sold you the promise of a dry day. You didn't pay out money for it and enter into a contract that guaranteed you no rain. They sold her a faulty product and as a result she incurred expense she wouldn't have if the product had worked as it should.

"Why not just pump more? If she is able to make a ''3 month'' supply and feed her daughter, clearly she isn't having any troubles producing."

The baby couldn't latch because of tongue tie, she wanted the baby to have BM, so pumped.

Actually she does deserve a badge of honour, it isn't easy to pump if the baby isn't regularly suckling.