Mrs Hinch....perfect prep :-(

[caroline161]

I feel so angry with Tommee Tippee that they've "gifted" her a perfect prep machine. Completely undermines her wish if she wants to breast feed. Plus she's such an influencer how much will this reduce our national breast feeding rates? Pregnant women will go and buy one just because she has one and not give themselves a chance to breastfeed

Well said @WeMarchOn

plantpot

You have just proven my point.

Someone was shouting about how glad they are that they formula fed - which is great. I’m glad that was the best choice for them.
I shout about how much I love breastfeeding and I get called out for it. You’re not allowed to say that in case it offends someone, really?

Erm I watch Mrs Hinch, and she's out up that the medication she is on means she can't breast feed.

Woman has just been in hospital for a couple of weeks, whatever is wrong with her must be bad

She's put up*

Not sure why auto correct changes put to out

Fucking double standards. If I recommended breastfeeding to anyone the way that whoha recommends formula feeding I would get ripped to pieces. Can you not see the problem?

I'd choose formula every time in future :) fuck all the handwringing, I leave them to it.

I cannot stand the way breast is best chanted.
No. No, it isn't always. Sometimes your milk doesn't come in properly, sometimes you can't for medical reasons, sometimes it can be detrimental to mum's mental health.
Screw that though, who gives a shit what the mum feels or how it's affecting her?
You'll still get some sanctimonious know it all saying "well, if you don't want to do what's best for baby" fuck off even though that can make you feel worse.
It's NOT always best, it's great women have the choice and baby is fed and happy.
Putting others down or telling them what to do with their own body is shameful.

@ethelfleda you clearly have missed the whole point of the OP thread.

She would have zero problem with Mrs Hinch advertising for BF. It's even made her sad she isnt.

That's the double standard. She would have been happy to hold her up as a brilliant advocate for mothers.

It's the FF along with her cleaning habits that posters are happy on this thread to imply that makes her "immoral, disgusting and pretty much thick as shit"

Pregnant women will go and buy one just because she has one and not give themselves a chance to breastfeed

Really? I would have thought that most adult women can think for themselves and that if they want to breastfeed then they will.

@ethelfleda
This is the point, you're allowed to promote breastfeeding, you're not allowed to promote formula feeding. It is double standards but it goes in favour of breast feeding. You get ripped to shreds for sharing the fact that formula feeding is a positive experience.

I don't care what anyone does. Good for you for sharing. Good for anyone doing what the want to do, but breast feeding women are not better than us formula feeders.

My point is that both formula and breastfeeding are valid choices. But the women on here attacking those who choose to bf as being sanctimonious etc are not ‘leaving breastfeeding mums to it’
Ff women and bf women should both be allowed to talk about their choice and why it suited them without either being shot down or being offended by it!

But Lime didn't you know that women are only vehicles for children and then a food source once mothers? They are selfish to reclaim their bodies and minds. Tut tut.
And that breastmilk is actually the fabled elixir of life with all its magical properties?

You all know that Mrs Hinch's income is sponsorship from companies, right?

whoha I never said that breastfeeding women were better than formula feeders. I was proving a point that you’re allowed to talk about and be proud of your feeding choices but I’m not about mine. Formula isn’t allowed to be advertised in the traditional sense. nobody stops women who use formula talking about it. It isn’t shoved under the counters in mothercare like some dirty secret.
Breastmilk isn’t manufactured, therefore can’t be advertised as nobody makes money from it (if that makes sense) formula companies have huge budgets and make a lot of money from selling formula. Stopping them from advertising doesn’t even put them on an even keel. Especially when there are still people who believe that breastfeeding women should sit in the corner and face the wall so nobody has to see it.

That isnt the point of this thread though.

The point of the thread is to tear apart a pregnant woman who has suffered a serious medical event in the last year, is on medication for it, has only been released from hospital for "advertising" a bottle making machine.

I highly doubt there would have been a thread if she had been hash tagging about bras for breast feeding or creams for your cracked and bleeding nipples.

But "breast is best" encourages sanctimony by implying that women who breastfeed choose the best thing and women who formula feed don't.

We all want the best for our children and "breast is best" straight away gives the impression that mothers who formula feed are inferior.

If I was slagging off formula like some of you are slagging off breastmilk I would likely get jumped on. So hypocritical.

Pregnant women will go and buy one just because she has one and not give themselves chance to breastfeed

Yes, because when wimmin get pregnant all their brain cells fall out of their head and they can't make their own decisions anymore.

Ethel you miss the point, maybe you're late to the thread so didn't see that it is about shaming an individual whose choices or lack of are of no concern to OP.
You're projecting. Be proud of yourself all you want. Breastfeeding can be really hard work.

I've had exclusively FF and bf babies. Both ways are fine. It's still unacceptable for a formula and bottle company to get around regulations in this way - if it wasn't going to shift units they wouldn't have paid her to promote it.

Who has 'slagged off breastmilk', Ethel?

All I've seen is people slagging off attitudes that demonise ff, while paying zero regard to the mental and physical costs that bf can bring.

But advertising for breastfeeding bras and nipple creams doesn’t come with a whole heap of ethical baggage (both historical and current). And tbh even if she did advertise those things, judging by some of the posters in this threads attitude I’d bet good money that there would be a thread called ‘Mrs hinch smug about breastfeeding ‘shaming’ her formula feeding followers’.

maybe
Perhaps I have missed the original point of the thread. But this has descended, as it always does, into ff vs bf. And I get sick of the hypocrisy on here.

Thanks Stuckforthefourthtime, voice of reason.

Huh MyCatHogsTheBed!?

And there’s me thinking that she runs her insta channel out of the goodness of her own heart because it’s fun and earns a living through a regular job when she’s not filming herself bleaching the toilet. Colour me shocked!

Jk of course. But people who think viewers/subscribers don’t realise this is how ‘influencers’ make a living are pretty naive and insult the intelligence of the many grown adult women who consume this media. Influencer culture isn’t exactly new is it. It’s pretty common knowledge that you’re the product being sold by the influencer, your attention is the currency they sell to companies.

And even if there is the odd person who somehow doesn’t realise that, it’s still ridiculous to imply that someone would change their plans to breast feed cos a celebrity they like has acquired a perfect prep.

Where the influence does come into play is the fans who are already planning to FF or end up having to do so due to other reasons. They’ll be more likely to consider purchasing a perfect prep than a rival machine because they’re now aware of its existence so can add it to their list of considerations. And I don’t see an issue with that when they’re still in control of making the final decision on what to buy. I don’t watch hinch (but I know who she is) and I’m newly pregnant, if I need to or choose to FF I now know there’s a machine called perfect prep that can aid that.

Still doesn’t make me blindly get in the car and drive to the shops like a zombie and buy one if ten minutes ago I was keen to BF.