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To think that the NHS had lost the plot over breastfeeding?

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WandaWomblesaurus · 10/06/2022 08:56

www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-10892531/NHS-accused-putting-babies-harm-advice-trans-women-wanting-breastfeed.html

It feels like some kind of bizarre experiment - except it's babies who are being used for affirmation.

Am I being gaslit here?

OP posts:
WarriorN · 11/06/2022 12:31

As has already been laboured, why are we prioritising the needs of males to do something that has been demonstrated to be unsuccessful for the infant and so this only benefits the male?

Hagiography · 11/06/2022 12:58

Bobbin, I'm really sorry to hear that. I wish you'd had better support.

Helleofabore · 12/06/2022 09:11

What an interesting reaction to this thread.

It seems that very few posters (was there any this time?) support males breastfeeding at this time, when there is no evidence at all about the composition of what is secreted.

Again, not one answer about how this would benefit an infant over donated breastmilk from a female expressing with an infant at a similar developmental stage or formula with it’s known properties.

But there are still posters out there who wish to police language other posters use, often while hypocritically using denigrating language themselves or to express their own negative and unsupported prejudices about MN users.

And I think we can all agree that NHS is failing too many females at this point who need more support for their feeding choices, be it breastfeeding or formula or mixed. When I think of the support I got from breastfeeding clinics in my area, (and they still are) I am very sad to think this is so much a post code lottery.

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