ok, i probably am, but the way new mothers do thing s now, and there attitude is really getting on my nerves.

[pukkapatch]

rant alert
te entire holier than thou attitude. huge genreralistaion, i know. but whats so speical about waiting till the baby is six months old before weaning that will garantee said mothers a direct ticket to heaven?
from what i recall, upping the age to six months didnt happen because of some amazing scintific breakthrough. no new data was used t o make the decision. (a mnetter showed the evidence of this on some thread.
and then the whole breast bottle thing. the ones spouting statistics at everyone, with their smug expressions. it doesnt matter. every mom does what she sees as best for her baby. we dont constantly need to have information shoved in our noses.

my eldest is ten, and youngest four, so i'm not that far away from these subjects, but, some peoples attitudes just really really get on my tits.

oh no, bumper, if you eat shite you must feed your children the same... lest you be a hypocrite. you should fear that label more than anything. well, that and smug and self-righteous and zealot etc etc etc.

That's good aitch because chicken nuggets are perfect blw food!

Actually, yes, you are right aitch.....

I dont think I've listened all that much to HV's and mw's second time around because they dont appear to have moved with the times (or officially - "had continuous training and updating of skills").

Shocker

Fuck it, you go right ahead BJB. Prove me right

Don't forget Nazi, aitch, the epithet du jour for anyone who takes health research with anything approachng seriousness...

hmmm, they are actually. at least my home-made organic chicken ones with millet coating are... [smug] [superfood]

Oooh i must log on to www.babyledweaning.com for that recipe

Can I get to it via a link from www.howbreastfeedingworks.com?

that's just blatant pimping VVV..

militant nazi, surely. with a smug, self righteous expresson on your face....? condescending sneer in place? now go forth and give people accurate, up to date, evidence based advice, you heartless beatch......

I think kitty has it actually. BLWers are smug, not because they think what they are doing is superior but because they didn't have to spend hours straining carrots through a sieve

BLW - the Slattern's Way!

me, lulu? ah well i can't, actually. not wrt to BLW at any rate. it was a small study, qualitative rather than quantitative, and it doesn't really stick to current guidelines on weaning.
but as i've said many times before for me being a parent's not about rigidly adhering to guidelines, it's about understanding the reasoning behind them before you veer off them. but it's most definitely not about rubbishing things that other people do. (mostly cos i couldn't care less what other people do).

SORRy, i am all for moving withthe times actually. i follow all current guidelines at work, but i dont think im making myself clear, im talking about what i do at home!!! No one on here needs to tell me my job.

aitch!

I care what you do...... but you dont care about what I do....

aitch!

I care what you do...... but you dont care about what I do....

do you know what, though, i don't think i would ever have done more than mash family food anyway (which is the current guideline, as it happens ) so i don't think it saved me that much time. but they do look so very cute munching on a carrot stick.

I weaned at 6 months (or there abouts), BLW and breastfed. nothing about feeling superior or any other smug crap - it suited me and required the least work.

i was not being serious in that post aitch ! was a weak, and clearly failed attempt at humour.

fair enough BJB

i know you were. i wasn't taking it seriously at all, except to try to head off people saying it's guidelines for one and not the other.

i think i need to lie down

nurse vvv, please make up a bed for lulu in the sanitorium.

The thing that gets me about these people who condemn the changing guidelines do they not realise that our parents, granparents and beyond have all been in the same boat and the guidleines that they followed with their children are different to the ones followed by our parents.

When my granny was having children women were actually encouraged to smoke to relieve the stress of pregnancy, when my mum had us many moons ago it was still perfectly acceptable to smoke, drink and eat what you wanted in pregnancy but thanks to scientific research and statistice etc we now know the dangers of smoking in pregnancy.

Is it so hard to grasp that it could just be possible that the weaning age, breasfeeding statistics that are being rubbished by some are actually right. 2-3 children do not make a controlled scientific experiment do they?

And really how de we know that it hasn't done us any harm, my dad has always had stomach problems, how many people out there have IBS??? Ok we cannot say that these ARE down to early weaning but we can't say they are not can we???

or how many of us have allergies/weight problems etc? it's impossible to separate this stuff out but it does give the lie to the 'i'm alright, jack' crew.