MN "Guide to breastfeeding" - WTF is this nonsense?

[BertieBotts]

I remember when MN articles used to be well researched and draw off the expertise and experience of posters on the boards. This sounds like someone has written it off the top of their head with no input from real mums at all. It just trots out the same old tired myths that they should be combatting.

Newborns "feed 8-12 times" yeah try in the space of an hour :o

Alcohol - 1-2 units once a week just and caffeine. And diet.

"Extended breastfeeding" is after a year and the benefits need to be weighed up with the cost of not being able to work

Seriously disappointed. I stopped reading at that point.

I now realise the 8-12 must be the minimum to keep them alive or something. It's not what most people experience with a newborn.

And I don't get the work comment. Women in the US have almost no maternity leave and yet have higher breastfeeding rates than us.

That work comment is terrible! I went back full time when DS was 1 and then continued to breastfeed for another two and a bit years.

Wtf is that work comment? I continued to bf both mine when I went back to work. Your boobs don't suddenly fall off because you're out the house for a few hours 🤣

Wow that makes me angry. I returned to work at 9m and fed until 3years. 8-12 feeds means 2-3 hourly. Mine wanted pretty much every hour (or more frequently, plus cluster feeding). I could write a better article from my experience of feeding two children and reading up about it.

Mine only bf early morning and evening after turning 1.

Oh and it says feeds will reduce to 4 hourly in time. Well that did happen for mine, but not until they were on solids eating 3 meals a day! Very few breastfed babies can go 4 hours in the daytime between feeds.