So does anyone else find the term 'artificial feeding' in relation to the use of formula milk a bit irritating?

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Or is it just me?

yanbu can't understand all this them and us stuff with mums.
at the end of the day, when your PFB is grown up they won't give a shit how you fed them.

YABU doesn't bother me, it is artificial.

YABU - but the term suggests a certain register, which wouldn't be appropriate in all situations.

My real bugbear is with the term 'breastfeeding', which I really dislike, although I haven't managed to articulate to myself exactly why.

I prefer to say 'I'm feeding my baby on my own milk'.

YANBU IMO I would imagine it is used by smug breastfeeders.

How can you object to breastfeeding, unless your milk comes out somewhere else?

Not irritating at all. It's true.

Using "artificial" feeding for ff then makes bf more normalised.

"when your PFB is grown up they won't give a shit how you fed them"

Well - you don't know that do you? I know adults who feel quite sad when they know their mothers didn't want to breastfeed them as babies.

And what about adults with health conditions like diabetes, hypertension and breast cancer? How do they feel when they see articles suggesting possible links between methods of feeding in infancy and adults developing these conditions in later life?

I just find 'breastfeeding' a bit .....clinical, and clunky.

sabire well ds couldn't care less and he is 17.

Can't see the difference in connotation between artificial and formula. It isn't as if they have a strap-line on the box saying,

"Cows breast-milk meant for calves, it'll be just perfect for your human infant once it's been put through several machines and turned into powder!"

But they have those horrible adverts undermining BF. It doesn't seem fair.

I artificial / formula fed my lovely healthy DD, it's all the same to me.

"when your PFB is grown up they won't give a shit how you fed them"
I give a shit that my mother never even tried to breastfeed me, I suffer with crohns disease and if she had not artificially fed me I quite possibly would not be suffering. Not all of formula milk is artificial though - what about the fish eyes in it?

oh dear, another stick to beat FF with.
so you are 100% if your mums had BF you, you would be ok.......100%?

@ fish eyes.

Smug gits that we were, I remember talking with a group of friends at uni, and we were all jolly glad our mums had BF us. We were all PFBs too. What a weird conversation.

So it probably does matter to some people/PFB.

would ff had been better?

@ that Leonie!!

You're all right with what SMA stands for though, I guess?

Not irritating at all. Factual.

I take "artificial feeding" to mean bottle/cup/tube feeding though. So could be formula, could be EBM, and could be for very good reasons (ie, prem baby needing tube fed or whatever).

So no, I don't have a problem with it. But then I'm not mad on "breastfeeding" either, although I accept it's a term of convenience. I often get old ladies asking me, "Are you feeding her yourself?" and I want to say, "Yes - from my BREASTS!"

I didn't know that about the soy formula. My friend fed hers son on soy formula because she was worried about him getting allergies to dairy if she gave him a dairy formula.

It does seem like the list of food that can have adverse health consequences grows and grows.

It means produced rather than natural so lets hope all bf babies are kept on an organic diet for the rest of their days with no produced anything ever.

LOL Tafka.

Why, noddyholder? Would there be some kind of hideous Dorian Gray style transformation from bouncing baby to wizened gnome if they don't?

By your remark, however, I would assume that as you think that BF-ers aspire to feed their babies only natural foods, by analogy therefore, you also think that FF-ers want to raise their kids on fruit-shoots.

Wow! That's a bit judgemental of you!

No. It is correct. Formula is artificial. It is made in a factory.
Boobs are natural. They make food for a baby.