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Infant feeding

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Bringing Up Baby

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mamamea · 09/10/2007 21:57

Anyone watching this?

According to the voiceover -'she has decided to try a SPECIAL formula'. One of the mothers has some how decided that she should feed her baby 'Hungry Baby' formula in order to get her to sleep longer???

Obviously the FF marketing is very effective, you don't get a choice of breast milks do you, much better to feed them designer milk from a can.

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chipmonkeyPumpkinNorks · 09/10/2007 22:43

Tbh, that didn't bother me so much, at least the baby was getting fed! The poor little twins, made to take 1.5 oz of milk in the afternoon to STARVE them into taking 4oz later. That really upset me!

squeakybuggywheels · 09/10/2007 23:13

hah. had to stop watching this it was too crazy. the twins were teeny tiny too (maybe i forgot how small newborns are...)
i know i get really grizzly if i don't get enough food why wouldn't the poor babies???

fairysnuff · 09/10/2007 23:33

oh, wasn't it just awful?!
And then feeding them up at night to get them to sleep longer?
They only have small tummies, too small to take enough to see them through, surely?
It is only now that I realised why it upset me......did anyone see that Gordon Ramsay episode where they showed the ducks being force fed to make fois gras?
That was what it looked like to me.
Do FF babies normally bring up mouthfuls like that? Serious question, I BF so I really didn't realise they did that, I hated to see it

milkshake · 10/10/2007 11:00

hi mamamea, are you refering to the single mother?? you can clearly see that she looks so much better and happier as her baby is sleeping better at night!! she is only feeding her the hungry baby milk at night not all day long......

FioFio · 10/10/2007 11:02

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katwith3kittens · 10/10/2007 11:49

Fairy ... Thats EXACTLY what we said about Foie Grass. Looked terribly sad to me too.

and yes, do FF babies drool so much milk after a feed ? ... genuinely interested too..

Each to their own I suppose ... I'm sure we can all be critised for something

mamadoc · 10/10/2007 18:39

What bothered me about the special hungry baby formula was that AFAIK it doesn't have more calories just is harder to digest so supposed to keep them satisfied longer and yet the Dr Spock lady implied it would make her baby fat if she kept giving it. This sounds like utter bollocks to me and yet went completely unchallenged as did Claire V's starve em and then stuff em technique. It worries me that people might actually believe this stuff.

chipmonkeyPumpkinNorks · 10/10/2007 18:56

Exactly, mamadoc, I was thinking that too! That Deena reminds me of an ill-informed MIL, rather than a baby-guru! Especially on the public bfing. I was !

fairysnuff · 10/10/2007 20:46

Oh, god yes
How ridiculous were their arguments.

My DH was very worried about me feeding in public until I left him in a queue and sat down to feed. He came over twice to chat and it wasn't until he sat down and I informed him that DD was fed that he said,'What, when?'

If my own DH does not notice, how would others??

Both the ladies on the programme did have their boobs out, I felt. So I thought it was a bit of a bad example. But they are new to it, esp the one who struggled, they will no doubt get better at being discreet.

LoRayningNewtsAndFrogs · 10/10/2007 21:03

ARGH, I could not beleive the way those old battle axes were claiming we shouldn't feed in public!!

As for the stuff em and starve em even DP said, 'surely any daft mothers out there, that don't really have aclue, and are tired are going to watch this and starve their children hloping they'll sleep longer'

WHY don't those babies wake up?? Because they are full and not hungry?? or because they know mummy and daddy won't come and sort them out even if they do cry

bunnyhunny · 10/10/2007 21:06

I got REALLY irate about their attitude to bf in public. I found it very difficult to do so, because of stupid attitudes like theirs. But when I DID do it, it was very discreet.

And everyone is going to see the cv babies sleeping 7 - 7 and think that it's a great idea to let them cry it out

mamadoc · 10/10/2007 22:41

LOL at ill informed MIL.

That is EXACTLY what she is like. Quite sweet on the whole but with horribly outdated views and poor advice. I am just waiting for her to advise some cooled boiled water which my own dear mum and MIL are obsessed with! Difference is they haven't given my mum a platform on national TV and called her a guru.

I can't believe they don't feel obliged to correct some of the misinformation. Their warning about the separate rooms from birth was so wishy washy- "some experts believe". NO not SOME experts actually a huge body of research.

suis · 11/10/2007 00:38

The whole programme is really light on any real information or conclusions, it's mostly made up of recaps and "what's coming up next". Trying to draw conculsions or announce a winner on a particular topic on the basis of 2 families trying out an idea is pointless. Especially when 2 of the 3 ideas don't try and do "sleeping all night" you can hardly start to compare.

It's pretty sloppy programme making.

I also notice this week that the voiceover has started to mention what current medical advice is on things like leaving children to cry and putting them straight to their own room, just as their "expert" is about to bully parents into going against this advice.

suis · 11/10/2007 00:42

I agree about the bfing in public too, showing it to worst advantage. It implies that all bfing mothers are waving their breasts about at unsuspecting men being as indiscreet as possible.

I think at some points in this programme they are having to work hard to find agruements against somethings, so that they have to make public bf look as bad as possible to try and make it into a debateable idea, same with the continuum people who "might find it a little impractical" to take their babies for a walk to soothe them.... hell, everyone I know takes their babies for walks to soothe them, whatever sort of parenting they are doing.

GillL · 11/10/2007 14:48

I ff ds (8 weeks) and he only drools out loads of milk if he's had too much so not often. I'm going back to work soon and ds is still waking at least once a night as you would expect. I would rather still be getting up in the night when I go back than force feed him during the day or ignore his screams at night to "train" him to sleep through.

GillL · 11/10/2007 14:49

To add to this most bfing women are so descreet in public that I don't think I've ever notced it and neither would I care if I did.

chipmonkeyPumpkinNorks · 12/10/2007 11:52

The only time I have had more than a tiny bit of breast on view was when bfing on the beach in a bikini. Did feel quite exposed then but would have drawn more attention to myslelf if I'd draped myself with a big towel.

butterscotch · 12/10/2007 17:00

My DD has been on Hungry baby food since 8 weeks as she was only going for 1hr or so between feeds! Now even on this at 17 weeks she is only going 2.5hrs - 3.5hrs depending on time of day

HB food takes longer for the baby to digest i.e. making them feel fuller for longer....

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