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.

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Just like it's perfectly valid to drink or smoke

Yes that's true but what are the cancer stats for those? Much higher than not breastfeeding I imagine

God forbid some exclusively breastfed babies might choose to drink and smoke. Then what? They might eat red meat every night for the rest of their lives - will they not get cancer because they were breastfed?

In the grand scheme of things it's not going to have that much of an impact on someone's life is it?

Actually how do you know the impact on the grand scheme of things? Formula is relatively recent if we talk 'grand scheme of things' :) I have no hard evidence but to me yes I believe it can have a significant impact. Which we why we need to support women better to achieve what they want to achieve.

Ironing, take it from....plenty of eye rolling going on :)

You were determined that official sources denied pain was possible. It was pointed out the same sources covered it.

Ok then the grand scheme of someone's life. Could you stand three 25 year olds in a row and tell me which was formula fed?

Not a MN collective eyeroll,yours.

*Seem to be posts following yours saying the opposite.

I didn't know problems were common,it wasn't that long ago. I read widely*

I'm sorry but you couldn't have read widely... or at least not with you eyes open if you didn't realise that breastfeeding may not be a walk in the park. Did you research your pram before you bought it? Did you research weaning before you started? If you put any amount of effort into researching breastfeeding then you would have seen straight away that there are problems. Heck, even just talk to people who've done it. Lots of people have experienced issues. Many have overcome them. Some couldn't or chose not to continue as a result.
I have absolutely no idea where you created 'rule' that breastfeeding was easy, however all those pictures you seem to have taken as fact (do you also believe you automatically look like every model when you wear the same clothes they do? Or do you understand about photoshopping/posing?), but yes, breastfeeding is very enjoyable and easy once you get past the initial hurdles.

@HelloSquirrels if I stand 3 25 year olds in a row can you pin point which one's mother may have weaned at 3 months instead of 6? Can you tell which one was allowed a phone at the age of 4? Which one was mummy PFB? Which ones were left to cry it out?

Your argument works for pretty much anything.

No - course you can't which is why we all stop judging each other.

Meanwhile, at least we now know that MN do consider it unreasonable to say that breastfeeding is brilliant.

It's more that goady taats are unreasonable.

Why did mn delete bert's thread?

yes of course
"you're doing great"

This thread I find just as goady.

"Ok then the grand scheme of someone's life. Could you stand three 25 year olds in a row and tell me which was formula fed?"

No. but I do know that I have reduced my own chance of gettingbreast cancer by bf.

I'd just like to say again that I want women to have proper choices. Informed choices. I don't want anyone thinking they don't have enough milk because there is no milk straight away, for example. I knew it could take 3ish days for the milk to come in- I have no idea who told me. So how come so many people don't know that? Why are HCPs not telling women that? I hate the fact that there is nothing positive about breastfeeding on Mumsnet. I am so glad I'm not a first timer coming for advice. I'd be terrified! And I am pretty sure that even if I started bf, i'd stop at the very first hurdle.

dr are you so patronising in real life? I expect you're perfect and your children are perfect too?

Sadly that will never happen. Even this 'let's celebrate formula' blog was written with nasty undertones about breastfeeding which is quite rightly putting people's backs up. I now think whoever wrote this blog is an ignorant arsehole who managed to offend so many women yet thinks she's done a good thing by 'being honest'. Well a basic rule she should have learned as a child is manners. There is no need to put someone else down to build yourself up.

If they're happy on the inside, they're happy on the outside and their future starts today.

I just don't get why people are so bothered what other people do?

It's not what other people do that bothers people, it's the personal attacks that bother people

I am amazed this thread is still here. It's been a textbook BFvFF thread going around in circles.

I am bothered by your personal remarks to me.

It's not a personal attack to ask if someone is patronising in real life when they are clearly being patronising here.

I just don't understand why people are so bothered by how others choose to feed?

"Ijust don't get why people are so bothered what other people do?"

I am bothered when people don't get to do what they want to do.

Don't want to bf? Fine by me.

But the thing that emerges on these threads are that there are loads of
women wanted to bf, for whatever reason couldn't, and are so upset by the fact that they couldn't that anyone saying that they could is triggering for them. So something is going badly wrong somewhere.