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To complain about breastfeeding workshop?

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largecoffeeplease · 19/05/2019 17:15

NC for this

Would I be unreasonable to complain about this?

A couple of months ago at 8 months pregnant I attended a breastfeeding workshop hosted by a local breastfeeding non-profit group.
It was absolutely brilliant, I got so much unbiased information and I found that it really helped me with my own struggles with feeding when my baby arrived. As part of the workshop, they invited two new mothers to come with their babies and speak about their experiences.

As I had found this so useful, I offered to come back and speak at their next workshop with my DD about our experience.

At the workshop I was speaking at, this time round the session leader was someone different who I believe might be the co-founder of the organisation or something equally high up.
While the slides and materials etc were exactly the same as the workshop I had attended, I found this group leader to be absolutely awful. The information she was giving was so blatantly biased and came across so strongly as 'you must breastfeed from the breast always and if you don't you are wrong'. She shut down any questions about breast pumps etc by saying 'why would you bother? Just feed from the breast' and called formula 'awful'.

Would I be unreasonable to complain to the organisation? It seems bad that the same workshop is delivering a totally different message by two different leaders from the same organisation with presumably the same training.

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mummysherlock · 19/05/2019 20:38

YANBU, my DS was prem and tube-fed to start with, so I had to pump, and then use nipple shields when he was ready to feed as he wouldn’t latch on without them. He ended up having breastmilk for 15 months.

To be honest I’m so glad that both DC are at school now and all this breast vs bottle politics is well and truly behind me.

Notmymonkeys · 19/05/2019 21:17

YANBU

I used to work in breastfeeding support, and my role involved training other supporters. These kinds of attitudes make our jobs so much harder, and have absolutely no place in any service which claims to be about supporting women.

Please complain. Absolutely.

largecoffeeplease · 19/05/2019 23:00

Thanks all! You have totally put my mind at ease that I'm within my rights to complain!

I sat there feeling so angry. When I fed my DD in front of the class and she stood and complimented her latch and how well she was doing and what a gorgeous baby she is, I really just wanted to shout YEAH, AND SHE IS COMBINATION FED, YOU NUTTER ...but I restrained myself.

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