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Charlotte Church - lovely comment about breastfeeding

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YummyMam · 04/10/2007 14:04

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.

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Walnutshell · 04/10/2007 18:51

It's a start, yes!

boolepew · 04/10/2007 18:54

Bet you all didn't think so highly of her when she was falling, down pissed, coming out of nightclubs. Role model

oldwomanwholivedinashoe · 04/10/2007 18:55

dont see what you've got against Jordan cod. She's honest, straight talking (sounds like some one familiar??), and does her best as a mother from what I can tell from her TV shows and interviews etc.

belgo · 04/10/2007 18:56

but I suspect most poeple have down that as teenagers boodlepew, it doesn't mean that they can't go on to be good role models.

FluffyMummy123 · 04/10/2007 18:56

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boolepew · 04/10/2007 19:06

It was only a few months before she got pregnant. He's supposed to have cheated on her, while she was pregnant, as well. I spent most of my youth pissed, so I don't have a problem with that, but as soon as BF is mentioned, all of a sudden she's a role model. All she's doing is what nature intended.

I bottle fed. Can you tell

FioFio · 04/10/2007 19:23

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boolepew · 04/10/2007 19:32

She does't have to use paid childcare, because is a millionaress(sp?) and therefore won't need to work. Ever again.

Bitter and twisted? Moi?

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YummyMam · 04/10/2007 19:58

Well I seem to have started another argument.

icod - I do not think that we should build celebrities up as role models, and this is not why I posted the quote. I just think that it is nice to see a popular magazine printing a positive comment from a young mum about breastfeeding - especially as it is one which, as others have pointed out, takes into consideration that some some people can't breastfeed.

Lazyemma - I don't think that CC's comment was being snide about other mothers' choices - why shouldn't she express an opinion? And she is clearly totally besotted with her baby and loving the way she has chosen to feed it.

I did not want to start off another breast v bottle debate - I think that's been done to death.

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oliveoil · 04/10/2007 20:10

what's wrong with coming out of nightclubs falling down pissed?

you lot are a grumpy pile of grumps, leave Charlotte alone, reality will hit shortly mwah ahahahahahahahaha

DrNortherner · 04/10/2007 20:11

Hi Olive!!!

Haven't seen you around for ages. How's things? Hows dd1 doing at school?

lazyemma · 04/10/2007 20:11

YummyMam - of course Charlotte Church can express her opinion, and I, in turn, can express mine. If that's alright with you, that is.

oliveoil · 04/10/2007 20:16

(Hello Northerner, dd1 is doing dreadfully tbh, I have a whingy thread somewhere in Education which will tell the crap level in detail. How are you?)

DrNortherner · 04/10/2007 20:17

Oh dear. Off to look for thread - what's it called?

NadineBaggott · 04/10/2007 20:17

"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"

Yes lovely

"I think if you can and don't it's ridiculous"

what's 'lovely' about that?

she's entitled to her opinion of course and you're entitled to agree but it certainly ain't 'lovely'

the page is too short to list the things I think are ridiculous vis a vis parenting so I'll leave with swish and a swagger and bid you good day.

ADragonIs4LifeNotJustHalloween · 04/10/2007 20:20

It really p*sses me off that "we're" not allowed to say anything positive about bf-ing experiences for fear of either upsetting someone who ff (through choice or otherwise) or of being accused of smugness.

lazyemma · 04/10/2007 20:20

thank god for you, NadineBaggott (not a sentence I ever thought I'd say or write!) - it's good to know that I'm not going mental.

oliveoil · 04/10/2007 20:24

weeeeeeel I think if you can and don't it is ridiculous so I agree with Charlotte on that one

just my opinion and one that I have kept to myself with mums at toddler group who say they can't be bothered b/f

well good for them, but it is so much easier in the night than staggering down to the kettle to warm a bottle up

for eg

anyway, am I on a breastfeeding thread?

lazyemma · 04/10/2007 20:24

Dragon, as has been painstakingly pointed out about a willion times on this thread alone, no-one has a problem with people being positive about breastfeeding. Here is my original post, for example:

"I'm happy that Charlotte Church is happy: good for her. It is however a shame that, like 90% of other mothers, she can't seem to manage that apparently complex feat of being enthusiastic about her own parenting choices without being snide about other people's."

In case that's overly complicated: Being positive about breastfeeding = fine by me.

DrNortherner · 04/10/2007 20:30

Wel I thought breastfeeding was fabbo 2 days in. Ask me agin in 3 weeks and I would hav ereplied differently

What has Gavin done to his hair btw?

lazyemma · 04/10/2007 20:30

It's not always about "not being bothered", oliveoil, although I'm not surprised that you assume it is. I think most women like you think like that secretly, even if they don't say so, so at least you're honest.

oliveoil · 04/10/2007 20:39

well if they use the words "I can't be bothered" then one would think they could not be bothered

what, with them saying it an all

(Northerner, will bump my whiney thread)

lazyemma · 04/10/2007 20:50

I'll have to take your word for it that they did use those exact words, but anyway. Their choice. I was more talking about how your whole argument revolves around these women who "can't be bothered", whereas there are lots of reasons a woman who physically might be able to breastfeed might choose not to, apart from being lazy.

MrsJohnCusack · 04/10/2007 20:50

I suppose what's nice is that she is pretty young and the general view of young mothers seems to be that they don't breastfeed.

and whilst she might have been a teenage pisshead (and nowt wrong with that), at least her fame and money comes from some sort of talent

actually I find it really odd that OK asked if she was breastfeeding. I wonder if she volunteered the information, or whether they asked/couched the info to make it look as though they asked with a view to any bad publicity receieved over the Jordan 'incident'

cynical, moi?

or maybe they really are just that freaking nosy. I've never got over reading an interview with Suzanne Shaw (prob in OK, might have been Hello) where she said something like 'it's true that breastfeeing helps you lose weight. I only did it for a week, but I've lost all my baby weight'