"Women with small breasts need to feed babies more often" according to Aptamil

[QueenOfFlamingEverything]

[groan]

On their 'professionals' website.

For fucks sake

ffs - the size of the breast has no bearing on milk storage or rate of production.

Um no !

Well that is a bit silly isn't it?

ffs.

I'll tell that to my friend with the A cups whose ds feeds half as often as mine.

How are they allowed to print this stuff?? Outrageous.

ah, if only i'd read this 9 years ago. i've got enormous hooters, so i could have fed my 3 dc much less frequently. bummer.

Not just print it but aim it at the HCPs we should be able to trust to give accurate information

I feel an email coming on...

LS, only if they read the aptamil website!

I did read somewhere that small breasts produce as much milk as big breasts but can store less. That I believe

But BM is made during the feed so its not really relevant and a big jump to say would have to feed more often. Even if I sit down to feed with emptish feeling breasts as soon as I have the start of feed let down reflex they feel full.

stealth, they didn't have time to read the aptamil website, they were too busy reading all the books saying they should be sleeping through the night at 6 weeks old (mind you, they ignored that advice too)

'The size of a woman?s breasts has no bearing on the amount of breastmilk she can produce, although babies of
women with smaller breasts will often have to feed more frequently.'

Well, what they are saying doesn't even make sense!

I'd like to see their evidence for that.

MumNWLondon, there are differneces in storage capacity between women but they are not realted to breast size.

And anyway, as you say milk is made as required, so wwhere the flip do they get this crap from?

Well I think I might phone their HCP 'helpline' when DS goes to sleep and ask them what evidence they have to back up that crap 'fact'.

But don't worry, the Aptamil HCP website is secure - see the last point:

Aptamil Professional's promise to you

* We will always work within relevant regulations on the promotion of infant formula.
* We will always support you in your aim to assist mums to continue to breastfeed.
* Where available, we will always give you information about all formula milks, not just our own.
* We will make access to our HCP website secure so that feeding information is only available to professionals. <img loading="lazy" class="inline-flex mumsnet-emoji" alt="Hmm" src="https://www.mumsnet.com/build/assets/hmm-PR4o6B1t.png">

Because god forbid this information should be available to mothers

I have emailed them to request their evidence to support such a fact.

AFAIK your breasts store a limited amount of milk and most of it is produced as the baby feeds.

Mine are rather lop sided of late. Must remember to use the right before bed.

Undermining bollocks.

I tandem fed (new born and 3.5yo) with A cups. The 3.5yo thought all her Christmasses had come at once.

And nope, I didn't have to feed more often than I expected. In fact there were times when I made the 3.5yo feed too relieve engorgement.

WTF? And they are running training courses for HCPs and funding for midwives, at a time when people are really struggling to go to uni (and you can bet it will be harder next year) so are more likely to grab any funding they can get, especially postgrads.

And people roll their eyes at the suggestion that formula companies undermine breastfeeding.

Does anyone have an Aptamil access code - I want to have a look at the full blurb.

That is absolutely outrageous.

whatthewhat - anyone can register as a 'professional' - I have. Just lie on the web form

incredible....i'm speechless!!!!

isn't it to be expected form them though
they want to sell formula, they want to put people off bf

end of

they suck, its more than wrong but its obvious that it will happen

Oh good grief.

So my AA/A cups (depending on time of the month) weren't responsible for dd feeding only every 6 hours through the night from birth? And managing to be on the 98th centile??

Sorry, not boasting btw, just telling it how it is.

Yet another reason to undermine breastfeeding and confusing women as to why they may be having problems.

That's amazing, QoFE - how wonderfully secure their website is!

Do you notice as well how every page is https - the kind of page you need when logging into something or viewing sensitive already-logged-in information like internet banking. I mean come on, even on a site like ebay it's not https once you are logged in, only on the login page.

Having a https address on a normal page which anybody can view is completely pointless. It's like having a complicated seven bolt locking system on your front door but leaving it open.