To demand a harder hitting campaign to promote breastfeeding?

[WashwithCare]

I?m sometimes taken aback to hear mothers gave up bf-ing because it was sore, or involved feeding for hours at a time? What did they expect? What did they think newborns do? Didn?t they imagine that anything chewing on your nipple for 10 hours a day was going to nip a bit?

But then again, who can blame them? Breastfeeding for the minimum WHO recommendation of 2 years is practically unheard of. Nearly everyone will tell you it?s absolutely your decision, and fine to stop. The public info campaign is fluffy and vague about the benefits, and the baby on the follow-on formula milk box looks decidedly peachy. Lots of women are so mis-informed, they believe that formula is almost as good as breastmilk.

Is it time for something a little harder hitting? How about this for a tv ad; (scene 1) mum feeding her newborn a bottle telling her mate how hard bf-ing was. Caption: Breastfeeding Hurts. (scene 2) same mum, but now older, bald and sick, hugs toddler. Caption: So does breast cancer. FADE to caption: "Breastfeeding significantly Reduces your Life Time Risk of Breast Cancer". Followed by cheesy inspirational slogan.

I BF on demand my DS (now 13) for 20 months. I was 35 when he was born. He was mixed-fed with formula from 10 weeks. I suffered repeated horrendous bouts of mastitis and nipple thrush for the first 4 months. I had total support from my HV, hospital BF counsellors, ex-DP, and my mother who BF both her children in the 1960's.

We practised what I now know is called "attachment parenting", and co-slept for 7 years.

We don't have breast cancer in our family. I ate a completely vegetarian wholefood diet, and drank alcohol and occasionally smoked tobacco and cannabis while I was BF.

So shoot me. And the rest of the family.

coffee break

only another 50 or so posts then this thread can be put to a deserve death

they won't delete it

Do you what to know what, I am bowling out gracefully here, you are a narrow minded halfwit, you thoroughly need your head examining by ward 24, to cite rubbish and shite!, who is obviously more in the know about MY SONS medical needs, than his own mummy and health professionals

Id hate any new mother getting you as her peer supporter, as simply you cannot see out from your own arsehole, and are so lacking in human capabilities and understanding from her own little bubble, that all she has to do is look up google and it will magically give her the answer to all problems and medical advice and illness in this world, so she doesn't have to leave her coffee table, in that little tiny microscopic bubble!

You are simply out to cause a reaction and nothing more!, by you complete denseness and lack of ability to even comprehend that BREAST IS NOT BEST IN SOME CIRCUMSTANCES!! and that the evidence supplied has lots of anomalies and other unknowns from the different researchers and studies.

The difference is I take them for what they are, AND with a open mind!!!!

You are nothing but a nasty poisonous piece of venom, who is nothing more than a piece of shite on anybodys shoes!

WWC, you know perfectly well why LMH got abusive

and I believe you get off on it...

...on your "coffee break"

you CHOSE to make very personal statements about how difficult you had found bf-ing.

I have never once said I found ot difficult to BF, NOT ONCE he latched on beautifully, but problems with MY breastmilk, put him in hospital with sever intensities bleeding, due to the sever diarrhea!

LMH elected to engage in an argument with me where she wanted to push the point that a child with allergies couldn't be breastfed. She used emotional language, about throwing breastmilk down the toilet etc.

NOT A CHILD, MY CHILD BIG DIFFERENCE!

I dont even know why I bother tbh, as it evidently clear you know JACK about my sons medical needs!

I know I'm wasting my time AF, sadly, but I couldn't not report it in light of what was recently said.

WWC - I am perplexed as to why you can't understand the hurt you have caused here. You said about LMH "she couldn't be bothered". How is that not personally offensive?

BTW, I think I was very clear in my posts that I was responding to the thread in general, and comments made by a number of posters which I felt needed responding to in order to achieve a balanced argument for the benefit of others reading the thread in the future. If it was just the OP I wouldn't have, and didn't, give the thread the time of day.

(How many posts to go now?)

I don't know -45 - I think I am beginning to change my mind under the sheer weight of LMH's logic, clarity and eloquence though

you are not a very nice person, I think, WWC

whoever is right or wrong, who can link to the most evidence, who can keep going the longest

that fact sings out from this thread, very eloquently

Is this still going?

I think WWC desperately wants this to get to the magic 1000. I for one will not be feeding the thread any more. I've said everything I want to say.

AF - to be fair, I think I am quite a nice person usually, and we all have momentary lapses

Are you trying to imply that it's better han a rabbit? I only ask because I am curious.

better han a rabbit ?

translate please

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