Brilliants range of pr-breastfeeding t shirts. ROFL!!

[moondog]

Got the new ABM magazine this morning.
On the backpage is an advert for a website run by Lisa Cole.
Some classics were...

'I'm a tit man'

'I like milk form my mum,not just any old cow.'

Address is www.lactivist.co.uk

(No connection to me by the way-just like the lady's style!!)

don't forget the outline of those lovely breast pads....

I quite like the 'I let my parents sleep in my big bed with me'

Apart from the dcuk one I think they're terrible - really smug, "look at me, how wonderful I am to be breastfeeding" etc.

I do breastfeed but don't really want to tell perfect strangers all about it .

I saw one on another site - a bib with 'Number 1 Mutha Sucka'
Not keen on kids (or me)wearing this stuff. They are funny for about 30 seconds.

don't like these either. I am a keen bfer and believe it needs more positive attitudes and support but wouldn't wear one of these and certainly wouldn't put one on ds. DUKC is cool though. And I also quite like 'I let my parents...'.
They have a couple of print-out anti-formula posters ('subvert your local clinic!') on there which must be horrible for any mother to see/read who couldn't bf or couldn't bf exclusively.

Oh, btw, cod, the crossed-out buggy badge is presumably an anti-buggy (pro sling/backpack) thing. It's a whole attachment parenting thing.

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Eh, I'd say it's a "to each their own" thing. DS1 hated the buggy until he was 6 months or so, DS2 loved it.

I think AP (as a whole "philosophy") is a bigger thing in the US, here people just do what suits them and their babies, which seems a lot more sensible. (AP = breastfeeding, babywearing, bedsharing, and sometimes v. early toilet training, to be overly simplistic)

I would have thought v. early toilet training would be un-AP nQC?

Toilet training at 18 months is very non-AP. Toilet training from birth is very very AP.

At that age, it's not really toilet training (or learning) so much as parent training.

I think it was when I read an article on elimination training (I think it's called) as part of AP, that I went, "wait a sec, maybe I'll do whatever I want". Well, I wasn't very AP with DS1, but still ...

They are amusing...but no, wouldn't wear one!

Hang on, hang on.... Why are these t-shirt slogans ok but the ones with 'Mummy's Little Princess' etc etc are naffo/un pc ?

Eh, I think they're all naff, NDP. I don't like putting words in my kids' mouths.

me too, NQC.

I get annoyed by letters from babies, too. I got a lovely thank-you note from my nephew. He's two weeks old. Grr.

NQC..this irritates me beyond belief too.

About the t shirts......I think someone has made a good point about us finding sleepsuits,babygros and whatnot emblazoned with pictures of bottles-for someone like me,this is unacceptable. I would never allow my child to wear something with a bottle on it.

Cards similarly-note how many bottles appear on them.

I just hate all slogan t-shirts, those are particularly horrid though. Help I think I may be turning into cod

I think they are awful, utterly naff.

Did you check out the potty reward chart with the TURD STICKERS!!!!!!!!!!

Just got me thinking about the other day. Saw a child at M&T wearing a teeshirt saying "Lock up your daughters" on it... I was thinking eh? Saw them in Daisy and Tom. Said I thought they were horrible, and the woman sorting the display said "yes. Me too - we asked to send them back, but were told "NO!""

Really? Turd stickers? Coooool!

(But we have a "thing" about poo books in this house: we have The Mole Who Knew It Was None of His Business, Everybody Poops, Walter the Farting Dog, and Le Grand Voyage de Monsieur Caca.)

where is potty chart with turd stickers?

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cod, am I the one with no taste? Or is the lactivist lady?

I can't tell if the poo-in-the-potty chart has stickers or magnets. It would be better if it were magnets, so you could move them about, put them on the fridge, whatever.

Seriously, we really struggled to get DS1 to poo in the potty, he got a trip to a laundromat as a reward, when it finally happened.