For those of you who can't understand why so many of us get our knickers in a twist about formula marketing and advertising..Have a look at this and you will. Believe me,you will

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Nestle and the way they operate on Bangladesh. From today's Guardian

JodieG1 (actually all you prospective calendar girls) - I have captured that precise look although it's slightly grainy, see my profile, these are the pics my local maternity unit is now using to show mums to be attachment. I also turn up to demonstrate in person.

oooooh, i could eat your baby, whomoved...

We need a good press person but in the absence of one do you think Justine would ask Save the Children or ask a sponsor to help us put together? Co-eee, Justine, are you there? I might email MN Towers....
Sorry about Xena/Xenia identity confusion!

Awwww. Lovely pics

beautiful pics wmmc.

Gorgeous pics! I really need to try and get one when he has that look on his face, will be a hard one I think hehe!

AitchTwoOh - well there is certainly enough of her, she's on the 98th percentile....did you see the more recent spag bol photos further down....

I'm glad you all liked them, must get some more recent ones done.

Actually it wouldn't cost too much to do a calendar. We would either need to get photos done individually or all together, but the printing costs wouldn't be too much. Have to go to bed now (laptop flat and tired) but let me ponder on it. Perhaps we could find some govt money if we gave it away to maternity units?

Sorry last message didn't make a lot of sense - my background is partly in publishing and I've had calendars done in the past for corporatey things......

that article is just awful.

perhaps i am being naive here, but, what advice are themothers and grandmothers of these women giving to them? surely the grandmothers know how good breast milk is? or am i just being totally naive here?

9 years ago i took my bottlefed 9 month old to Dhaka. (he was mx fed, breast and bottle till he was 4.5 months old) i took three cans of sma with me as he was averaging one can a week in the uk, but during the holidyay he ended up having more milk as we were traveling a lot, and it was simpler to make up the milk for him than try and get him appropriate fresh food.anyways, i had to buy him some formula. the can that i would normally buy in tesco's for just over four pounds, was being sold there for sixteen pounds! i was gobsmacked, and refused to buy it. ended up getting lactogen, which is the one in the article. it was fine. BUT the shop wouldnt be stocking the stuff if no one was buying it. and it just shocked me how theymust be fleecing customers.

did i see them, whomoved? they're pride of place on the blog...

i think i owe a few people an apology. in previous debates i was clouded by my own experience of breastfeeding and was unable to see the bigger picture. after reading that article i will never defend formula companies again.

i apologise for many of my previous posts.

don't have time to read all thread now but have the article and want to read it tomorrow but just wanted to show my support too.

I haven't bought any Nestle products for about 15 years because of all this and I'm gutted that nothing seems to have changed in all that time.

the uk is not the big market for nestle is it. its the developing world the y want to make money out of. id doesnt matter if you boycott them here.

it's hard not to take the bf/ff debates a bit personally, isn't it? i don't remember you being too bonkers though, lissie.

oh, ive had my moments aitch

I've started a thread on Site Stuff about the possible calendar idea if anyone is interested....

Aitch....I think we have all gone a bit bonkers on threads before

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cylon, most mothers in Bangladesh do breastfeed - but as the article makes clear, some do not, and marketing strategies work to undermine the cultural norm of breastfeeding, so the support and advice other mothers and grandmothers give does not have the same effect.

That's how marketing works - everywhere, with everything. You see what's stopping people buying your stuff, and you work out strategies that undermine these barriers.

v true, vvv.

I think it's compulsory to go bonkers occasionally, isn't it?

(I have done it twice - one person I went bonkers at doesn't 'speak' to me on Mumsnet. Acksherly, she deserved it.... )

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Ah yes...i think i remember it

i don't... i really am not on here often enough to spot that sort of thing. [deluded]