to think it's a bit cheeky that a pregnancy magazine's prize for letters is a breast pump?

[Saveme]

Sorry if it's been done before, was reading a pg magazine today (Mother and Baby?) and the prize for having a letter printed is a breast pump.

What if you ff? What if you can't express?

There are so many items they could have this just seems a little bit weird to me.

But then I could be being unreasonable, I guess it could be sold (unlikely to get full price for it though).

saveme, I think you are being oversensitive and a little bit OTT tbh.
why is it "cheeky" and alienating to give away a breat pump?? when a huge proportion of women will bf why would it alienate a "huge proportion of the readership"?

obviously you have an issue with it, but tbh I doubt whether many other people do. if I win something I don't want or don't need, then I give it away. I don't take it personally or feel alienated

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Well HC,

It works like this:

In order to encourage your readership to write in to the magazine you incentivise the process by offering a prize.

By offering a prize that a lot of women have no use for you are sending the message that their opinions are not encouraged.

It's not a free toy in a box of cornflakes.

personally, i wouldnt be writing in as i still have my medula breastpump from dd3, so dont need one. and yes it could alienate a small % of women who cant/dont breastfeeding, but arent initial breastfeeding levels quite high in proportion to those who ff from the start? i used my breastpump more in the first few weeks to take the edge of the engorment off, and dd's couldnt latch on to what was effectivly a huge hard football sized boob.

i have seen magazines give away bottles, persoanlyl not somethingi would have much need for, as am planning to exclusively breastfeed, or vouchers for maternity stores, well surely that means women who have already given birth has no need for them?

at the end of the day its a freebie.

It wouldn't occur to me to get so wound up over it.

But then I've never felt the urge to write a letter to a pregnancy magazine either.

If the prize were a packet of cigarettes or a bag of poisonous snakes, I might sign an email petition, I suppose......

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saveme you are being paranoid really.
lots of people write into magazines without prizes.
we write on mn all dayt without them
if they offered a pushchair or a highchair or a moses basket or a cot then would that "alienate" second time and third time mums who have no use for them?
why would a lot of women have no use for a breast pump?
most women bf.

Fair point HC, there are probably more people that would benefit than would not.

If three quarters of mother's breastfeed (although very many stop early on) then you're only really missing a quarter of new mothers with this prize.

Saveme - I was only joking! (note grin emoticon after my comment). If you were really drawn to write a letter to a pregnancy magazine would you be doing it for the prizes anyway? It is only one of the letters that gets the 'prize'. Like many others have pointed out, there would always be someone alienated. I have seen avent type hampers on offer - bottles etc, which would not really interest me, also disps etc as I mentioned before. But many other mums would like them. You can't please everyone.

I would have no use for a breast pump or anything else really as I have 2DC and all the added crap accessories that I need, but if I felt the need to write in I would still do so. (Agree that it is an useless prize if you already have a baby though as if you wanted one you'd have it from the start).