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What would a hypothetical TV advert for breastmilk be?

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FrozenNorthPole · 27/12/2010 20:23

Having just muted out out an irritating follow-on milk (1 year +) advert on the TV, I began wondering what a TV ad for breastmilk would involve? I realise that no-one's ever going to make an advert like this because, frankly, there's no money to be made out of it and that is the entire point of advertising. However, for the sake of idle curiosity, how would YOU choose to advertise breastmilk if you had the chance?

PS
This is intended as a light-hearted thread and if it starts to go down a predictable BF vs FF road I shall be forced to stick my head in a snowbank, just FYI.

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ILoveItWhenYouCallMeBoo · 28/12/2010 21:11

kara, could you give me a run down of what it says please?

AngelsfromtherealmsofgloryDog · 28/12/2010 21:13

Liking theboobmeister's idea.

I know so many people who nearly gave up due to being taken by surprise by growth spurts, and another who gave up due to a nursing strike but neither she nor any of her friends knew what it was so assumed her 4 m.o. was 'self-weaning'.

ILoveItWhenYouCallMeBoo · 28/12/2010 21:15

angels i gave up at 7 weeks with ds1 because i thought my milk was drying up (well my mum told me it was Hmm) but i know now it was a growth spurt.

AngelsfromtherealmsofgloryDog · 28/12/2010 21:18

:( ILoveItWhenYouCallMeBoo.

It really makes me angry that there's not better info provided by the NHS. I went to our local bf cafe in tears about DS crying all the time and not sleeping at 6 weeks. They failed to even mention the growth spurt and implied I was just a neurotic mother. It was only with hindsight that I found out about it here & on Kellymom.

DrSeuss · 28/12/2010 21:19

I saw a great sticker the other week- "My mummy's milk is better than milk from any old cow."

ILoveItWhenYouCallMeBoo · 28/12/2010 21:21

yes, if it wasn't for MN and then kellymom, recommended by MN i wouldn't have even tried BFing ds2, never mind still be doing it at 19 months. before MN i didn't know it was possible to do it past 6 months, how on earth do you get to be the mother of one, having informed teh HCPs that youw ould be BFing and not know that BFing is possible past 6 months???? it really is terrible how little factually accurate info and good support tehre is out there.

this is how bad it is, my mum is a midwife! Shock

AngelsfromtherealmsofgloryDog · 28/12/2010 21:23

:( :(

Well done on going for so long with DS2 though. :)

ILoveItWhenYouCallMeBoo · 28/12/2010 21:25

it has been 10% knowing i am doing the right thing for him and 90% stubborness and wanting to prove to my mum how little she actually knows about her own job.

AngelsfromtherealmsofgloryDog · 28/12/2010 21:27

I think a bit of stubbornness is often a good thing in that kind of situation.

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