Serious question: why ^are^ many of the pro-b/f amongst you so rabid?

[Pruni]

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i dont do seconds hand shoes either.

Btw I am pro breastfeeding just know it's not easy for some!

Love the neutral thread title which is not intended to provoke in any way....

Erm,Idon't BH.It was a nightmare for me both times,but various factors ensured that eventually it workedout.

I know that millions of women give it a bash andhave a hideous time and the pathetic bf 'support' that our NHS offers,has to change..

Re the Clarks,equation issimple

Less money spent on shoes=More money to fritter away on wine and boob tubes.

Actually am rather surprised that the normally genteel Pruni started off such an emotively titledthread.

D'you think I could start one asking why so many bottle feeding mothers are feckless slatterns????

lol moondog. i wouldnt look good in a boob tube

MD ~ I think that you make a very valid point there as I needed support and didn't have it.

lol about boobtubes and obviously there is never enough wine in the world for me!

Now which camp do I sit in then if I breast and bottle fed ?

Boob tubes - that's a description, right?

beansrouts ~ i think moondog was talking about my love for boob tubes, I have loads of them!

Any camp you like BH!

No, Moondog, because I think you got there first with your formula = junk thread title.

This certainly competes with that.

Pruni, I'm a little hurt, actually. The suggestion that the reason people feel so strongly about breastfeeding must be down to "hormones" almost like PMT or baby blues. Or, indeed, that breastfeeding has affected our brains and turned us "manic", and has little to do with actually had a well thought out, and researched, sensible opinion on it.

I appreciate and acknowledge that some people are more aggressive, nay insensitive about their posts, but I really don't think it warrants a counter attack on pro b/feeders (who seemingly cohort with these "rabid" posters)

I'm pro b/f because it's FREE! And so many people struggle financially with small children, and here is this wonderful, free way of feeding your child, for FREE! Allowing you a short period of time to save up for life's other neccessities
And while I would never criticise or judge any mum's choice - and I do realise that many mums don't have a 'choice' due to medical reason -, I find it deplorable that in the past 9 years since I had my first, there appears to have been little change in public attitudes to b/f and there is still a huge lack of support for mums who do want to have a bash at breast-feeding. I don't think I'm rabid though. I have seen far too many depressed mums made worse by their feelings of frustration and guilt over how they feed their baby.

having a well thought out....

at "rabid"
what would be the equivalent insulting term for formula feeders?
chippy?
hypersensitive?
alarming tendency to overpersonalise the arguments? (not v catchy that one)
thank god I am going out, because this one is going to get very messy

I make no apologies for alerting people to arecent highly readable article spelling out the fact that formula is not a wise choice unless entirely unavoidable.

Pruni, I think I love you. I mainly agree with Scummy and Dino (in a slavish sort of a way) but I know just what you mean.

I think the whole issue of babies/children and feeding is rather button-pushing - I know that if my kids reject the food on offer, whatever that is (breastmilk, sausages, you name it) it triggers something quite primal in me about not being able to feed my children. Less so than it used to, but it's still there. I reckon that's part of it.

Then there's the whole natural/unnatural dichotomy - we get het up to similar degrees about birth, and perhaps breastfeeding is on the same contiuum?

I can certainly get rabid about it, which shames me.

I can get rabid about it too, but hey, if I can't get het up about what I think is best for my ds then I might as well walk away from this mothering lark now!

PMSL Harpsi. Love 'chippy'.

I think I'd better go off and do some chores. I'm really smarting for a barney tonight as I've had the week from hell. I'd be better off getting it out of my system by aggressively de-cluttering upstairs rather than risking posting something I might well regret.

I'm going to tear myself away.

my god, that's the pot calling the kettle blck, MOONDOG saying she's surprised at someone starting an emotively titled thread!! Hahahahaha, this from the woman who started the 'formula is junk food' thread!

ooh, still giggling about that comment...

Fuckit! I mean 'spoiling for a barney'.

I know my rabidity is based on a feeling of hey, I did something so very virtuous, hey look at me, my halo's getting tight, oooh aren't I clever...all done in a sort of faux-supportive manner, of course.

However, I appear to be the only one, don't I. Foam. Gush.

Glad to see sisterhood alive and well on MN...

i had been sitting here reading the bf threads feeling all earthmotherish as i bf 4mo dd then she puked all her milk down my back bringing me back to earth. i have been bf'ing non-stop for 2yrs - ds til 21m and dd (tandem fed for month but was not much fun). i think the 'rabid' views of some bf'ers stem from being made to feel so damn apologetic for cont. to feed after 6months... if it was no big deal and you weren' made to feel like you needed defend your actions everyone could relax about it and be less rabid all round.

i don't enjoy having to wear v unsexy bf bras and getting leaky and probably smelling a bit milky (not to mention soaking my dh every time we attempt sex ) - and the fact that my tits will prob'ly be round my knees by the time i stop bf'ing doesn't fill me with joy either. so if i want to be a bit cranky about the subject every so often well tough tits (and after 2yrs they are!!!)

Moondog, if you make no apologies for alerting people to the fact you judge formula as junk why did you not bother to post anything at all on the 400 message thread that you started? Many people wondered why you started such an inflammatory thread and didn't ever post again. Seems a little strange you are back banging the same drum again so long after but didn't seem able to join the original thread you started.

oh I won't be fighting I've got how to solve a problem like maria on sky plus am genuinely baffled as to why moondog didn't ever come back to the thread