SMA GOLD ON EASTENDERS?

[Dalrymps]

I probably don't know what i'm on about but i just flicked on to eastenders and during one scene there was a carton of SMA Gold on the surface in the background, it was the house of the one who has just had the baby with the ginger husband i think (not too sure cause i don't really watch it), anyway i think her baby in it is quite young...
Anyway, i was just wondering if this is allowed, i mean, isn't it like an indirect form of advertising formula for newborns? I'm not totally against formula or anything, I mix feed myself, I just think it seems like their advertising it when they shouldn't? Any thoughts on this?

Right off to get some flowers in hair before I go to Mums & Tots.

Jeremy, when I said some people feel guilty and this may colour their response to the debate I was thinking of posts like these:

becka: "As a new mother I find these threads very off-putting and because of personal choices I have made makes me feel like avoiding this website for good. These messages make it sound like formula is poison"

PussinJimmyChoos: "Now, when I see people making such a fuss about formula product placement .... it makes me feel really really shit ....the end result is that the fuss about it all makes some of us FF mums feel like we opted to give our kids arsenic and that seeing a tin of SMA on a soap is tantamount to Tanya having a bottle with a skull and cross on the side!! "

I am not stupid or blinkered enough to think that people who disagree with me are all feeling guilty. I thank you.

Well said Carmenelectra - don't be put off by posting pics!! However, if you do take a pic just make sure that the tin of SMA is well hidden!!

I will remove ALL 'props' from the surrounding area!

"Bottle feeding IS normal and fine. So is breastfeeding"

Yes, bottlefeeding is socially normal. It's not the biological norm though is it?
And it's a matter for individual judgement as to whether it's 'fine'.

If you'd asked me whether formula was 'fine' for my children I'd have said 'no' - we have hypertension, diabetes and obesity in my family and I don't want to increase my children's chance of developing these things, which I would have been doing if I'd opted to bottlefeed them instead of giving them my own milk.

I would really object to a health professional telling me that formula was 'fine' for my baby. She's quite welcome to judge it 'fine' for her baby, but not for mine.

I see you ignored the bit I put about us all being friends and stopping arguing Sabire!

I'm not being unfriendly Chardonnay.

No offence meant - I was making a serious (and in this case heartfelt) point.

No offence taken, Sabire!

I just think everyone (and not singling u out at all) has made their point on this thread about 60,000 times now! Enough already!

Ooooooh but it's been an entertaining thread though!

Are you saying it needs to be ...... let go?

Allowed to wither and die?

NO! I refuse to ever let go, even when it reahces 1000 messages I'm going to starta 'SMA ON EASTENDERS??? PART DEUX' thread.

I do feel for those who have come along towards the end though and thought it was still about eastenders

Yes it has been a good thread hasn't it? I went away for a few days and came back and it was STILL going on. Good show chaps. all sides jolly well argued etc. But now I'm afraid you simply must go and do some hoovering - sorry vacuuming (hoover's a brand name isn't it - oops).

So, has anyone heard back from the BBC yet?