My GP's view on EBF - I'm not happy

[lyndyloo]

GP really p'd me off yesterday. Went to see her about a couple of things and it came up on my records that I had mastitis recently. She was incredulous that I am still feeding DD at 15 months and said 'it's not doing me or her any good' and 'no wonder I am so run down' blah blah blah. I quoted WHO guidelines to no effect so then just shut up and let her rabbit on about how DD doesn't need the milk now etc. (Maybe she doesn't but isn't bf about more than that????)

Anyway just ventilating - feel a bit miffed and don't like the lecture. No point in complaining - she's a bit old school tbh but feeling a bit down and really could have done without the lecture. (This was on the back of asking a HV a simple question on Monday and being told 'don't know - ask your GP' in an amazingly off hand manner! God - if some of these 'professionals' utilised their 'customer service skills' like that in the private sector, they would get the flaming sack!)

Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr

LilianGish - my daughter's petite section is mornings only five days a week for 2h 50 minutes. It's hors contrat - there are max 15 children in a class.

Don't know why she's not more tired but there it is. She naps maybe once a week now.

nope, i don't do rooteen

RoRo: have you tried BLW? i.e. sticking bits of food in front of your LO and seeing if they eat it. That's mainly what we do, with some spoon feeding, e.g. (from yesterday)

breakfast: porridge and toast
lunch: cold sausgage pinched by DS from fridge , fishcakes, green beans
tea: cheese on toast, yoghurt, apple

sometimes he wolfs the lot (the stolen sausage for example), sometimes he hurls everything you've carefully made from the high chair

"KWToddler: Do you have many bricks standing on your living room floor?"

and your point is?

knifewieldingtoddler - love the name - is it based on the bringing up baby series ?
I was shocked by their comments on why a child who was clearly used to using a sharp knife, was such a shock.

no, you wouldn't cry. you are way too independent to cry. only those clingy AP children cry for attention.

AP? or should that have been CC (cont conc.)

Yes, oblomov, based on BUB. I never bothered to watch 3 or 4 of the series but i skimming MN gave me an idea of the content hence the name.

i noticed that you are also 'abrasive' on your profile. funny that. i've been called that a few times on here.

yes you can. i'll be trading in a few for machetes soon.

I would be interested to see any evidence that bf makes a woman run down. in fact the evidence is to the contrary i,e, the hormones released are calculated to make a woman feel good. personally, I have never felt perkier since I have been bf.

incogneato: i said something to that effect on a bf thread not too long ago and got a couple uppity defensive MNers smirking at the idea.

kwt they are wrong

Starlight, what are AIBU threads?

Effie, how old is your little one? We've been doing a bit of BLW (I think I recognize you from one of those threads?), but he's such a fatty I am not really all that bothered if he gets much "real" food.

Just for fun until they're one! He loves cucumber, we discovered last night...can't wait to see those seedy nappies...

Oh, cannot WAIT to tandum feed.

Yes, I am being serious. I love love love bfing.

Where does one find these threads?

It blinking hurts feeding when pregnant though (IME at least, although Adventures in Tandem Breastfeeding agrees), in the run-up to tandem feeding... (I'm getting that toe-curling feeling when he latches on, rather like you do in the esrly days bf a newborn -- in fact, have negotiated DS down to only having one side at a feed because of that).

NO! NO! Oh no. Why does it start to hurt again? And here I was in fantasy land that bfing would never hurt again.