AIBU to feel a bit sorry for this newborn baby?

[TheCountessOlenska]

Just seen some pics of a new baby on Facebook - only a couple of weeks old. I counted at least two other family members aside from the Mother giving the baby it's bottle.

Surely in your first few weeks on this earth, it's not too much to ask to be snuggled safe with your mummy breastfeeding

yep suppose it depends what was in the bottle and if the others giving the bottle were random passers by while the mother was in the pub?
dont drip feed(bf v ff vdf)

Do piss off and get a life!

I'll end it now- parents who bottle feed are shit

I'll end it now- mothers who breast feed are shit

Don't be silly.

Here have my very first

parrots are left handed

FFS Get over yourself.

In the governments BIG (8000+ women involved) 5 yearly Infant Feeding Survey the main reason women give for choosing to bottlefeed is 'so someone else can feed the baby'.

Presumably so the mother can get on with doing something more pressing or important, like housework.

Bananas and custard. THat is all.

Or sleep shagmund, or return to work, or go to hospital, or just you know, not make assumptions about people and be a generally judgemental woman.

Parrots are right handed fgs. Studies show its better for them to be right handed until 6 months when they can use their left.

I must be very chavatastic in some people's eyes....I actively chose to FF my DD

I'm off to t'pub now with little 'uns, just got to put my tracky on and my argos finery. I think i'll let her have a bit of shandy in her bottle as a treat, it is Friday after all!

@ White Lightening

I would be more concerned that the new mum was staggering around making tea and sandwiches while her visitors sat on her sofa and fed the baby tbh. I am sure the baby is happy but it can be hard for a formula feeding mum to hang on to the bottle if someone else is determined to have a go. If she is having a lie down, and is happy for someone else to feed her baby then fine. At least BF does ensure mum has to sit down and be given the baby at feeding times.

(I have done both!)

will the mother be putting the baby in a nursery full time to go back to work in a couple of weeks?
was there a GF book in the pictures too?

what kind of mother is this?!?

so are seagulls, they like to fly to the left when learning to fly but soon adapt and become ambiwingdrous

Blimey one of the reasons I chose to bf was so I didnt have to do anything else.

Particularly useful by the time you get to DC5 when 'I am FEEDING the baby' becomes your get out for changing toddler nappies or making tea.

Ambiwingdrous just made me snort tea everywhere.

I like that MrsDeVere

My poor baby was fed through a tube, by nurses who I doubt loved him at all

My child is DOOMED I tell you

Realy grow up or at least start an interesting not been done to death thread

Me too, MrsDeVere.

"Or sleep shagmund, or return to work, or go to hospital, or just you know, not make assumptions about people and be a generally judgemental woman."

I was joking. Not very funnily obviously.

Of course there are many serious and pressing reasons why people choose not to breastfeed. Particularly in the UK.