Charlotte Church - lovely comment about breastfeeding

[YummyMam]

In OK this week (sorry, I couldn't resist the cover photo of their gorgeous baby).

"I can't imagine not breastfeeding. I'm not going to preach but it's better for the baby and the mother and it's such a bonding thing as well. I also love the fact that she's so dependant on me. I think if you can and don't it's ridiculous"

I think this is a fantastic quote which deserves much more publicity than the the stupid things Jordan said.

But "could" can mean all sorts of things. Physically able to, emotionally able to, enough support and information about what's normal to expect, etc, etc.

"I don't think she was being snide. I think she genuinely couldn't think of a reason why, if you could bf, you wouldn't. "

aye, right. I think you've been temporarily blinded by the rays of sunshine currently radiating of La Church's arse, but whatevs.

Do you always have to be so RUDE, LE?

Actually, fuck it, don't answer that. You seem to have some sort of problem with me and I can't be arsed with you so let's not bother conversing again.

I don't have a problem with you, hunkermunker. I do tend to be a bit abrupt when I feel strongly about something, but I respond to posts, rather than thinking of the person making them - and I genuinely am sorry if I've offended you.

Dear me.

Chalotte is a young woman (20? 21?) with a baby a few days old. She's blissed out with the experience of closeness and love for this little thing, and feels this is reflected in the joy she is having in breastfeeding. She wonders why - when this joy and closeness has just, like happened, without actually doing much except what she and the baby felt drawn to do - other mothers who might be able to have this experience, don't have it...in fact, she thinks it 'ridiculous' if they don't.

She's not going to know of the complexities of bf problems and all the other stuff we talk about here.

Give her a break, lazyemma and mosschops. Let her enjoy it and express her enjoyment, without accusing her of being 'snide' or talking bollocks.

Stop being so bloody unkind.

Oh i think she is great always have done, she comes across as such a down to earth "normal" person & i love that about her, i brought the OK as i wanted to read what she had written, i also liked the fact she said she "would not" be having a nanny as she could not bear to be apart from her baby, not like many other celebs who just bung the children off to nanny so they can swoon around!

I also liked the fact she is not going on about her weight & about being a size zero like many others.

All in all she is fab!

good post tiktok. I just like hearing about someone who is happy - she got the birth she wanted, she's enjoying breastfeeding - and this doesn't happen to many of us - and it's lovely to hear about it when it does.

I'm not being "bloody unkind", tiktok, which is a pretty damn laughable charge on a board like this, where people say far more personal and unkind things directly to each other than I have indirectly about someone I will never meet. As I said in my first post - I'm happy that she's happy. I mean that. I wish her all the blissed-out days in the world. I'm just sick of hearing people say - in effect - that there's something wrong - something lacking, really - in you if you don't breastfeed your children. I'm fed up of people being unkind to me and people like me, basically, and once in a while I'm going to say something about it, and I'm buggered if I'll be made to feel guilty about that.

I coukld'nt BF, I wanted to but could'nt. So personally I am a little envious, but as DS is now getting on it's not as raw as it would have been when he (or DD for that fact) were newborn.

Good for CC for saying how much she enjoys it and showing some tact by acknowledging there are those of us out there with just ornamental boobs!

Couldn't agree more tiktok, spookydooo & belgo. It's great that she is so happy & enjoying motherhood & what it entails.

Charlotte may be enjoying breastfeeding but sadly it seems she is not going to be left to enjoy co-sleeping:

www.digitalspy.co.uk/showbiz/a77014/church-warned-not-to-sleep-next-to-baby.html

lazyemma - generally when MNers are posting passionately about bfing it is not designed to intimidate or belittle bottle-feeders, but a response to the unbelievable intolerance that there is for bfing, particularly in public.

I understand that, Walnutshell. I'm pro breastfeeding. I hope to breastfeed any future children I have, if my norks are up to it! So I don't have a problem with people being passionate about breastfeeding, either on mumsnet or (in this case) elsewhere, I just wish there wasn't often this concomitant dismissal of people who haven't tried breastfeeding.

by "people", I mean "mothers", of course. Naturally lots of people haven't tried breastfeeding - men, for example, women without children and so forth.

Also note pompous use of "concomitant" - I hope it means what I think it does, or imma going to look like an idiot.

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Hmm I haven't noticed such a general dismissal but have been bf-ing for the last two years so of course wouldn't be sensitive to it. I'm sorry if that's the case. I'm sure most bfing MNers feel as I do - passionate about reclaiming our fundamental female rights!

lots of people will value her opinion though cod, and some of them are young girls who may be influenced by the choices of the celebrities they admire.

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But cod, it does make a nice change.

Yes, an excellent comment from Charl. Sorry have't read the whole post but just wanted to repeat what I read today - her contractions started in the B&Q carpark and they were going to go to the Toby Carvery for lunch but she ended up having to go home.

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lobotomies required or not , some of them may well consider breastfeeding who otherwise may not have done, which has to be a good thing.