Denise van Outen gives up breastfeeding. Shock.

[ItsGrimUpNorth]

It's too public apparently.

Since when has this woman ever worried about getting her boobs out in public and being photographed?

And since when does she ever go to the Post Office?

As if.

I couldn't care less if she bfs or not but it's such bs she's come out with.

Bfing can be so discreet so easily.

And so many women these days seem to be unable to produce enough milk. Is that really possible?

According to their website, they've sent out all the mugs and don't have plans to produce any more.

To be honest I didn't give a shit about DVO's BF choices when this was last in the news (BF or not, choice is yours) but was a bit at the comments in the article I read yesterday. DVO was all' you need to spend time at your relationship when you have a baby (re going out to a wedding sans 2 week old baby) and 'at least the baby sleeps through!!!' as if that were the be all and end all of motherhood.

I am just assuming she is a bit stupid.

Blimey - whatever happened to personal choice? No wonder I felt incredibly guilty when I decided to give up bf DS at 4 months for fairly selfish reasons - I was fed up with it and not enjoying it any more, and also wanted DH to be a bit more "involved" (and I hated expressing).

Surely the idea of a free society is that people should be free to make whatever decision they please and therefore shouldn't be judged on whether or not they choose to bf or not?

if she has just given up then that is about 3 months - which is much better than nothing.

Her choice - nothing to do with anyone else.

DVO stopped at three weeks - her choice, of course.

But her notion of 'breastfeeding bullies' is fantasy, if getting pamphlet and a mug about it (which will not have been targetted at her personally) is what she thinks of as bullying.

it's totally wrong if they targeted her specifically but is that really true?

I lost the last little bit of sympathy that I had for her when I read her tweets whinging about having to do one night feed, and omg how hard it was etc. She was trying to 'phase it out' (this at something like 3mo).

If she didn't want a baby that does baby things like wanting feeding, she should have kept her legs firmly shut.

How could they target her specifically? Did they read her story in the press, went to their records, then wrote her a letter criticising her husband??? I think not.

I haven't read the story in the magazine, but nothing in the Express link quotes her as saying anything that's not consistent with her getting the same info that every other mother gets - with the mug being given to every mother in that area, with the suggestion that dads support mothers who are bf by making cups of tea.

I really, really cannot believe this was about her. It's a daft story.

What's her Twitter name? I searched but can't find her, only fans tweeting as her.

I think it's maybe disappointing because she has always (to me) seemed pretty down to earth. I wouldn't have expected her to be surprised that babies wake in the night, that it can be slightly awkward sometimes to breastfeed in public etc. Now Amanda Holden or Cheryl Cole, I would have expected this from. So maybe DVO is partly a victim of her own success.

I can't remember now, found it quite by accident.

Errrr...

OK, here we go: twitter.com/dvomumalicious

DVOMUMALICIOUS???

There are NO words. NONE.

I think it is fine for her to stop bf at whatever time she chooses. But she is being insane to make out that the NHS are bullies and are sending her evil cups in order to snidily make her breastfeed in a passive aggressive manner.

I have up BF when dd was 3 months when I went back to work FT. It was a great shame (this was donkey's years ago so less support at work to express etc) yet never in a millions years would I have made a bloody song, dance and hoopla about my choices.

Oh dear, she's not the sharpest knife is she? But then she does love a nice bit of publicity.