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

326 replies

verylittlecarrot · 06/02/2008 00:46

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.

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verylittlecarrot · 07/02/2008 23:47
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BabiesEverywhere · 08/02/2008 08:21

QUOTE I felt mortified and ending up trying to reassure her of how grateful I'd been for her help

If she IS a trained BFC, she doesn't sound very good if she makes you feel like this

GreenMonkies · 08/02/2008 14:42

Hi everyone,

Thank you all so much for the LOVELY things you have said about me. I just went on and told the truth, I hope it has helped other people see that most long term bf'ers are not tie dyed sandle wearing homeschooling lentil weaving hippies! If I made that point then I have achieved my objective!!

Changing the world one little step at a time........

VictorianSqualor · 08/02/2008 15:00

Jenny?

tiktok · 08/02/2008 15:01

Not that you have anything against tie-dyed sandal wearing etceteras, GreenMonkies, have you ?

Some of my best friends blah blah blah

You did brilliantly well as we all agree!

Lulumama · 08/02/2008 15:02

hello, I thikn you'll find a ready made fan club here !

PortAndLemon · 08/02/2008 15:32
StealthPolarBear · 08/02/2008 15:48

Jenny? You were fantastic! Just a pity you didn't get more time (and a few more words in edgeways) to bust a few more myths!
Love the way he implied well in your case it's fine (or she'll scratch my eyes out) but for most other people it's not necessary. He wasn't saying it was wrong mind...

hunkermunker · 08/02/2008 16:25

Hey, GreenMonkies - please spill on the off-air chat as well! Was Dr H patronising? Or open to it? How about Lorraine? Did she do a cat bum mouth at any point when talking to you? The "you'll have to stop at some point" question demonstrates she didn't really "get" it, did she?!

Well done though - especially for not launching yourself at Dr H and strangling him.

BabiesEverywhere · 08/02/2008 16:30

I hope I didn't miss Jenny...Grumble grumble...shouldn't be off Mumsnet having a life

StealthPolarBear · 08/02/2008 16:47

She's obviously busy - maybe she's off weaning her daughter as she has realised that she will have to stop, she will, you know

GreenMonkies · 08/02/2008 16:51

LOL yes, it's me!! No fainting required!

I have to say that everyone in the studio was really nice (sorry!) LK and Dr H were very good at making me feel at ease and whilst Dr H said some spectacularly daft things (and did backpedal quite a bit from the written article!) when we talked before we went into the studio he did say he was going to play "devils advocte" as that was the whole point of the piece. I am not convinced he didn't believe some of the things he was saying, and lets be honest, he is just a GP at the end of the day, so not neccessarily going to be the best informed on bf matters, and probably not familiar with long term bf issues etc.

He did say stuff like sometimes he gets letters from mums who are struggling www.iwantmymum.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=21732&st=0&start=0 and that he thinks there is too much pressure to bf above all else, I pointed out that when this happened mums needed to be guided towards the people who could really help them, like the ABM or LLL as all too often the GP's and MW's and HV's were not experts and gave out conflicting, incorrect and unsupportive advice. I also explained that mothers should never feel guilty for failing to bf, but rather feel angry at those who should have been helping them, yet didn't.

And no, I have no problem with tie dyed hippy types, I have some very good friends who are exactly that, (and deep down I am a bit!!) but I just wanted to set the record straight that not all long term bf'ers are SAHM's with allotments and hemp clothing, some (if not most) of us are normal working mums with busy lives and clothes from high street stores who you would walk past on the street or sit next to on a bus and never think twice that they may be still nursing a baby of 12 or 18 or 24 months or older! (like one of the production assistants on the show who came to see me afterwards and said she was going to resume nursing her 12 month old, whom she had tried to wean that weekend, after seeing me) I myself am a nappy washing, sling wearing, co-sleeping, homebirthing tandem nurser, but I am not what people think of as the "classic" of this type, you know what I mean?

GreenMonkies · 08/02/2008 16:54

nope, no sign of weaning here yet!!

GreenMonkies · 08/02/2008 16:55

Oh, and Babies Everywhere, thank you for your fabulous efforts on the GMTV forum, but I fear you were always going to be banging your head against a brick wall there!

BabiesEverywhere · 08/02/2008 17:11

It was a bit os the twilight zone over there but maybe I made a few posters think a bit

If you have time for a question, how was breastfeeding during your pregnancy ? Did your first child nurse though out ?

StealthPolarBear · 08/02/2008 17:13

It's good to hear they weren't as as they came across, but it's a shame that " he did say he was going to play "devils advocte" as that was the whole point of the piece."
anti ex-bf is hardly the minority stance

hunkermunker · 08/02/2008 17:16

GM, LOL at him playing devil's advocate - he believed that stuff, definitely!

Agree totally re wanting to challenge stereotypes. I do it myself a lot - I work full time (so scupper the earth mother always cooking lentils with a child on the boob), wear make-up , seem quite shallow in many, many ways - but bfed my eldest till he stopped at 17m and am still bfeeding my 2yo, who I regularly wore in a sling for the first 14m of his life (then he discovered walking...!).

Loads of women bf longer than "the norm" - but until all women are supported to feed in the way they want, so-called extended bfeeding will be viewed as something "lucky" or "smug" or "f*cking weird" women do.

StealthPolarBear · 08/02/2008 17:17

hunker you have just shattered my illusions about you

PortAndLemon · 08/02/2008 17:18

[more-or-less-OT to BE: we were talking about nursing during pregnancy on another thread a couple of weeks ago. Just as an update, now I'm 32 weeks DS (3) seems to be gradually upping the frequency of his nursing again]

hunkermunker · 08/02/2008 17:19

Aw, SPB, what picture did you have of me?

StealthPolarBear · 08/02/2008 17:23

something lentilly and sandally
Actually, that's a complete lie, for a while I thought you were a man - I think it's because you have 'hunk' in your name...I'm easily confused...

beachlover · 08/02/2008 18:34

gm
well done for doing such a fab job
i bet your family are really proud of you

even dh who i got to watch it said you really put him in his place

what did you think when you made the point about how great it was still bf when your dd had cpox
they where really fummuxed for an answers
lk just replies mmmmm well when will you stop !
it was like they didnt even have the grace to acknowledge that that was a v v good reason to continue.

i would of thought a fair reply to the kind of comment would at least be well yes i can see that is a good point

Habbibu · 08/02/2008 18:42

GM - briiliant job on GMTV. You do have, how shall I say it? - a very expressive face... I almost wet myself laughing at your expressions when Dr H was talking!

BabiesEverywhere · 08/02/2008 19:27

Especially the trying not to laugh out loud face when Dr Pratt said women breastfeed to avoid sex

Elasticwoman · 08/02/2008 19:33

So bloody irritating when stupid people ascribe selfish motives to breastfeeding mothers.