aibu to love this blog post about why formula feeding is brilliant?!

[girlwithasecretsmile]

I think it's great to have a post talking about good things about formula for once but part of me feels bad for laughing so much.

passmethebottleblog.wordpress.com/

but the BF lot are the noisiest and most judgemental.

Is that everyone who breastfeeds? Nothing like a generalisation is there?

Sorry I meant the BF lobby, not every single person :)

The FF lobby is far bigger and has a lot more money and a much bigger noise.

Is this the only issue where the people in the 99 to 1 minority think they are the ones who need the sympathy and think its ok to attack the very tiny minority? What is up with that?

99 to 1 majority that should say. As in the ones who make up the massive majority playing like victims of the tiny minority.

I honestly don't understand the vitriol on this thread from women who are FURIOUS that someone would write this blog because it doesn't reflect their own experiences? FFS, the blogger is writing about something she experienced and her thoughts on this.

I like to wear boots or flats. I almost never wear heels. I could write a blog about the 10 reasons why boots or flats are better than heels. I have to imagine that some women would read my blog and think it resonates with them. Others would think I'm a moron because everyone knows heels are better. But I can't imagine a situation where the heel wearers would take it so personally that I don't like heels?

Seriously. Grow up people. People can think or say whatever they like and most of the time, it's not a personal attack on you because you think differently.

I can't believe people think this is a real blog! One post and then linked to MN by a new user.

Workingbling if the blog went on to say that women who wear heels look like a sack of potatoes and have the sex appeal of a diseased beast of burden, then yes that would be rude and some people might take offence.

It's a coincidence that working has a very similar writing style to the author of the blog isn't it?

"The breastfeeding lobby"? What's that then?

Haven't you heard of the breastfeeding lobby?

We all sit around with our terrible, terrible malformed saggy breasticles out spraying milk at passers by if they dare look at us.

We sneak in to dairy farms at night and hand express in the vats of cow's milk.

Everyone will soon be addicted to breastmilk and we will take over the world.

Oh, I know who you mean! The ones who are always going up to women givin their babies a bottle and accuse them of being neglectful parents? The ones who are always saying that formula is poison?

Yes yes. and most of us don't shave our legs or eat gluten.

I came across women who judged me for formula feeding my babies. Their reaction was like I was giving them drugs. The guilt that they tried to put on me because I wanted my body back. Now my dcs are 10 and 13, no one ever asks me how they were fed.

"I came across women who judged me for formula feeding my babies. Their reaction was like I was giving them drugs"

What exactly happened? Who were they? What did they say?

God, is this thread still going?
I would have thought after one of the initial posts calling bf 'bitty' everyone would have realised this is a pathetic, no one will ever win debate of going back and forth.
Ive come to the conclusion that the world is made up of two people: those who care about how babies are fed, and those who do not. The author of this 'blog' has gotten lots of attention which I think was probably what she wanted.

I honestly don't unerstand the vitriol on this thread from women who are FURIOUS that someone would write this blog because it doesn't reflect their own experiences

Nobody is FURIOUS. And it isn't somebodies experiences, its lies and slurs and wankery. It is specifically designed to attack and ridicule.

Her response to this thread seems to be about her experience. The original blog is not. The way it's written is very much as 'if only you ff then your boobs won't leak everywhere, you won't end up looking like a shapeless bean bag, your baby will sleep better..'

Nobody is futious Generally speaking the only people "furious" on bf/ff threads are people who think saying anything positive about bf is a personal affront to people who ff!

Aaargh read the follow up post and it's giving me the rage. Mainly because her initial story of feeding is so much like mine - screaming baby who couldn't latch, horrible pain, nipple damage, HVs and midwives manhandling my boobs and saying "latch looked fine" and "keep trying" when there was obviously something the fucking matter. As there was obviously something the fucking matter with the blogger's latch, probably tongue tie. But she then says to carry on would have been failing her daughter. Which makes me batey because I DID carry on and kept asking anyone until I got the problem sorted out. It did make the first month's frankly tough. It has made subsequent months do much better. I was NOT letting my daughter down by persisting with something hard but worthwhile.

Also the implication that low rates of bf is a heartening sign of feminism is so much cock. Feminism doesn't relieve women of the burdensome business of being Wen as if it is some sort of innate impediment. It allows them to be women without it being disadvantageous in and of itself. I thought we were past the kind of feminism that told us the only way to be as free as the men was to become just like them and renounce anything that was specifically female?

I can't remember exactly because it was years ago. Although I remember being called an emo! It was on here. No one would dare say it it rl to me. But it's all that 'artificial', 'chemicals', my vanity and and wanting to drink more than feeding my baby naturally bullshit.

www.nhs.uk/news/pregnancy-and-child/sharing-a-bed-with-your-baby-ups-risk-of-cot-death/

And Once co sleeping increases the risk of SIDS 5 fold.

about how ff serves vanity.

I think the blog author was trying to do The Hurrah for Gin (and others) self deprecating kind of writing. The problem is that those bloggers who have done well are not daft, they do their writing in a way that makes parents feel supported and like they're not alone in parenting and don't alienate a huge proportion of potential readers (imo). Promoting it on here with only one post was silly (I can't believe someone stumbled upon it, it'll be so low down google rankings it'd be impossible to find). Maybe it wasn't that stupid though, we've all got her blog stats up (but I can't imagine many have subscribed!!)

"I can't remember exactly because it was years ago"

So they judged you and reacted as if you were giving your baby drugs, but you can't remember what was said and who they were. Right.

Why does she need to answer to you?