IN wanting to set up a Mumsnet No Man's (Mum's) Land between BFers & FFers?

[Iklboo]

We're NEVER going to agree on this subject so I'm setting up a nice quiet bunker somewhere in the middle entitled

"I DID WHAT WAS BEST FOR MY BABY AND I DON'T CARE WHAT ANYONE ELSE SAYS LA LA LA LA LA"

Not being flippant, disrespecful, rude or anything like that. Just neutral.

wtf, polly?

I was here and I'm normal. I just can't agree with you that it doesn't matter how you feed your baby. It matters in terms of nutrition and infant health and it matters emotionally. I'm truly glad you are happy with the choices you made. I hope to become reconciled to mine.

polly, you're not talking to me are you? Cos if you're looking for an ally in normalsville, I'm the very last person to be asking

The 'it doesn't matter' statement isn't the neutral position, btw, because it quite clearly does matter - from the proven stats to the way women feel. As this thread has illustrated once more...

I wonder what the neutral position actually is?..

That's just the point! Either way is fine! OMG let it go and respect eachother's choices. Churchill was BF and so was Hitler.

So who started it then, ladies?

Hitler was also vegetarin. Dont know what thats got to do with it just thought Id lighten the subject and you seem to be having a hard time unnecessarily.

Thanks Austin

has Godwin's law just come into effect?

Cos may i finish it with...

If breastmilk is better nutritionally as Bee just posted, then why has a Formula Milk manufacturer obtained permission to print on it's cans 'Nutritionally Superior to Breastmilk?'.

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And i have absolutely nothing against BF, why would I?

what ARE you talking about polly? have you actually read this or any other thread on MN? i couldn't give a flying fuck how anyone else feeds their kids, but i care about mine and how we feed them Does Matter. stop changing the goalposts.

Godzilla????

??????? this becomes ever more perplexing!

Ah well if a man in marketing says it's superior to breastmilk..............

oh please don't bring your breastfeeding whinge fests to other sections

I will have to have the whole board on Ignore at this rate

I seem to have opened a can of worms/touched some kind of nerve, but completely and utterly unintentionally! Oh well!

ROFL, they must be joking. i've been had, deffo.

There are many many reasons why women dont/cant BF. Lets just respect if it works and if its for you then good. If it doesnt then try the next best thing

Ok, now just researched earlier comment, and seems dh was slightly misinformed. Don't know if anyone has actually decided to print this on the label atm, but apparently it is true, there are FMs that are 'nutritionally superior' to BM. That doesn't mean to say they contain the antibodies though, of course.

uh, okay polly

Godzilla's bumcheek: If breastmilk is better nutritionally as Bee just posted, then why has a Formula Milk manufacturer obtained permission to print on it's cans 'Nutritionally Superior to Breastmilk?'.

Because they don't have permission. That's an illegal and nonsensical claim. FF companies have been taking the p*ss for decades claiming formula delivers benefits that are non existent. Not to worry that mums are wising up in the UK, there's always the Filipino or Indian markets to hoodwink.

Of COURSE, Austin, that's a given. what on earth is going on here? and godzilla, where are you getting your info from?

There is no formula superior to breast milk. None. Breast milk is a live food that cannot be replicated by a manufacturing process.

Also, formula is not a sterile product. Breast milk is. You can't beat it.

Get educated. Then make your choices.

I don't actually agree that FM's are better than BF.
But Austin - what you say is what I've only been trying to say all along -
If it works, it works... if it doesn't, it doesn't. I don't have an agenda! just trying to give moral support to those who BF and to those who FF. At the end of the day, it's the babies that matter, and the main thing they need is love.