to be annoyed at 'lactivists'

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I have just seen on face book that 'lactivists' are planning on making stickers that say '100% mummy's milk' to put on bottles of expressed milk just so that the world knows that they are not formula feeding (horror of horrors!) how SMUG is this? And how judgemental of people that cannot breastfeed for whatever reason??!!!

Smug maybe, but judgmental?

I nursed both my children for over a year and neither of them have had a bottle. I'm quite proud of myself for doing it. It doesn't mean I judge people who don't breastfeed (in fact most of my friends/relatives) for whatever reason.

People should relax and feed their babies.

I think some people just have too much time on their hands....

there's a photo of me on FB giving DD an expressed bottle. At the time I thought 'noooo, I want people to know I breastfeed'. I'm so over myself now though.

YANBU, that's pretty smug.

Give me strength! Smug as Hell.

it takes some very strange people to make such a fuss of something women have been doing for centuries. they really need to get over themselves

agree smug as hell and obviously designed to show disapproval of anyone who happens to be formula feeding.

Why would anyone feel so insecure as to need to seek others' approval through this? If you believe passionately in bf, then you know your child is having expressed milk, so why does it matter what anyone else thinks?

I am very glad that my babies, who drank exclusively breastmilk, could drink from breast or bottle, as it meant that DH could do feeds and my babies were not totally tied to having me there to be fed. But it would never have occurred to me to seek approval by putting a sticker on.

A bit mad.

I always feed with expressed milk in a bottle when I'm out (big boobs, not very good at subtle feeding) and I do get lots of dirty style looks from other mums. So much for the sisterhood. Stickers though, totally over the top smuggery.

I am pro bf and normally arguing like mad but this is quite sad and pathetic sorry but I would laugh at their little bottles. I can't express maybe I should get some stickers saying exclusively fed on the boob and stick one on each boob .

I know slushy I am usually up for a BF/FF debate, but this is just dumb.

Actually... thinking this one through a little more practically....

You'd have to print out the stickers (on waterproof labels with waterproof ink so that it didn't run when you were heating up the bottle), apply them to the bottles (obviously at the right tilted angle so that they can be easily read by passing onlookers) and then peel the label off again post-feeding so that they didn't gum up the dishwasher/sterlising machine.

Yep. Far too much time on their hands.

where is this? i mean, where on facebook? can we have a link?

Will you only be able to buy them if you can prove your 100%ness? And will these lactivists have the powers to stop you and check the contents of your labelled bottle - just to make sure you are not cheating?

Why does it have to be seen as smug? I've known a few people who couldn't get baby to latch on so ended up giving mostly or entirely expressed milk. Which is ruddy hard work to do for months and months and I couldn't have done it, however lactivist inclined I may be. Why shouldn't they brag about it?

I think you're being over-sensitive. If you truly know that your own decision to FF was right (for you) then why give a Fig what other people do for their own babes and how they feel about it?

'BRAG' about breast feeding CanSupinate?? Fucking seriously weird, forget smug.

I don't believe this is true in the slightest.

I think nobody would notice the labels let alone read what they say, unless they plan to make an announcement too? Its a bit daft.

boo nasty old lactivists

waitaminute which lactivists are these?

Linky plz

this is right up there with the time those muslims cancelled Christmas

Why would you need to brag if as you say one shouldn't give a fig what other people do with their own 'babes'?

The implication is that FF is bad (otherwise why would they care what people think is in the bottle?).
I suppose it is possible to be pro-BF without being anti-FF, but it's a fine line.

the only reason i could think for using them would be if your child ws at nursery or being cared for by someone else and you wanted them to know it was BM so they wouldn';t heat it in microwave/shake it up too muchj?

tis tenuous though, and it would be just as good saying "expressed milk"

I am a lactavist pro bf and I think its unbearably smug but even more annoying than the smugness is the labeling of something that should be normal and everyday as something that is exclusive and may make non smuggers be embarassed about bf as it is associated with smuggary.

I suppose its in a similar way to working class young mothers stereotypically thinking that bf isn't for them because its a middle class middle aged thing. The NHS has put a lot into campaigns to try to overcome this prejudice. Maybe they will have to have a new campaign for non smuggers to identify with bf .

Is this a bottle feeding mother's guilt?

Silly certainly, but smug? No!

Breastfeeding is the best thing in the world for getting through loads of books and for not doing anything because "I'm feeding the baby"!

I did see a woman kick a cat who was nursing it's kittens, she shouted 'hail formula' as she did so