This has just really really annoyed me

[emkana]

Dd1 is in reception and has brought a book home called "babies". Every page goes like this "Babies need..." and then it says food/play/laughs/sleep etc.

And on one page it says "Babies need bottles". Not babies need milk, leaving it open where the milk could potentially come from, no, just "Babies need bottles". At the back of the book there's more text giving some more info, and there it says on the bottle bit "Babies need lots of milk, to give a bottle you must..."

NOT A SINGLE MENTION OF BREASTFEEDING!!! This is just so wrong, and I'm incensed. Am thinking of writing to the publisher.

Grrrr.

Much frothing here too.

I'd complain - as the book is giving the wrong message IMO.

Like the idea of bf lo's - how cute - hopefully they will see it as 'normal' and bf later in life.

The teacher replied in dd's reading diary and apologized for the book and said that breastfeeding would be covered next term as a topic. With a bit of luck I will have had my third by then and can go in to give a live demonstration !

I think you are right to be irked. It's plain inaccurate!