Is the GMTV breastfeeding piece going to be shown on Wednesday?

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I had heard a rumour it was, but it isn't in their "what's on" listings.

However, I did find this on their website today, which seems to be a little more balanced in terms of debate. Perhaps it is hoping to do the piece without warning us [cloak and dagger emoticon]

Dr Hillary's comments will make you want to flick his silly head though.

You have been warned.

BE, a lot of them are of the opinion babies should be weaned at 6 months, onto water, fruit juice and milk - but at 6 months, that milk will be formula.

Can you/have you asked why formula is more appropriate for babies than breastmilk between 6 and 12 months?

tiredmum....tell me this is not true: your MIL and FIL are intending to talk about your feeding choices??

Like, when did it start to be any of their biz?

Where's your DH in this?

I'm flabbergasted!

where is the forum with all the strange comments on? I can't see it on the GMTV homepage, but I am very tired today, is probably right in front of me.

I've read to here on it

I'm at the post "I think that any woman who continues to breastfeed an infant after it is weaned is for the gratification of the mother. If it continues as the child get's older it becomes more sexual." which is making me angry in new and interesting ways.

here you go

wow, its long! Thanks.

Glad to help, Babies.

That study is my new fave - a massive amount of babies, so powerful enough to control for all the variables (like smoking, which increases the risk; poverty; socio-econonic status, which both ditto) and which rules out multiples, pre-terms and babies who needed ICU care at birth.

So this way, the study ends up with a good, clean comparison of feeding methods.

I also like it because it shows that partial breastfeeding is better than no breastfeeding at all - makes a measurable difference.

have read that entire thread on the GMTV website

i loved (not) the way the women arguing against extended breastfeeding were ignoring hte fact that a toddler or school age child does not feed like a new born 'latched on outsied the school gates' and they were demanding evidence and research and medical proof for everything the pro posters were saying.. when the majority of their posts were completely unsubstantiated. and some were quite stupid too.

also, i now have a headache, mostly from being cross !!

"no wonder with all the toxins you would be passing over still weaning them at 7-9 years !! so what about all the "germs" they get at school then ?
Nature or nurture ? sorry breastmilk in the "olden" days wouldnt last that long - something to do with starvation so babies were eating "solid" food long before 4, 7 or 9 !!"

what ? what?????
honestly I must stop readin that thread, it is making my head come off and spin around the roomd

I think I am shocking them after all I am pregnant, breastfeeding and I have a sex life !!!

Have posted your question Hunker.

What gets me is if you say your child's not clingy, they say "Well, stop forcing him to breastfeed then!" and if you say, "I don't force, he asks for it" they say "Well, don't pander to him, who's the boss here?".

Thank you, lovely BE

Emily the Strange is really Not Helping anything, is she?

"Listen, sweetheart..." fgs

the 'toddle off to mumsnet' comment was quite bizarre !

BE< you are doing a sterling job ! it made me laugh to imagine the horror on the face of the woman who discovered you BREASTFEED and managed to get PREGNANT !!

"Perhaps posters some need to toddle back to mumsnet."
gracious me, never a truer word spoken. it's like the Village of the Damned over there

Emily claims to be a counsellor, my arse is she a counsellor, I don't care what pieces of paper she has.

Oh I should add, I re-read the GMTV thread before posting on this morning and I was amazed at the number of posts edited or removed, none of mine but enough to make it read a bit funny now.

BE I didn't think it was possible to love you any more than I do already, but it is

Well done dear heart

Thanks TF

Interesting though it was over there, I prefer the rough and tumble of this forum.

Really pissed off with the "pro" twats on there, actually. Quite what they hope to achieve, speaking to other women like that?!

Hunker, do you mean Emily the 'counsellor', no one else claimed to be professional ?

I am just waiting to see if Bunnie's daughters posts and if not I'll forget the thread.

oh don't hunker, they were pretty provoked after all

the extended bf have all sorts of arguments on their side - nutrition, immunity, bonding, child development and they make them pretty carefully usually

on the other side, they just go eewwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwwww and "I don't like it, so you shouldn't do it" and they think that amounts to an argument.

it is tiresome to have to deal with that level of fuckwittery, you know it is. It is just that you and I and BabiesEverywhere etcetc have trained ourselves over the (painful) months and years on here not to yell OFFFFFFFFFFFS!

Babies, I think hunker meant 'pro' as in 'in favour of', not 'pro' as in 'professional'.