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.

BOLOCKS, I wanted to watch this.

However just googled GMTV breastfeeding to see if there are any links anywhere and it seem we werent the only talkboard to get rather flipping annoyed by the first poll

OMG, will it ever stop?

Agree Dr Hilary not a good advert for the medical profession but I was cheering Jenny on, she was fantastic and so eloquant. I was a doctors forum the other day and someone had linked to a MN thread on extended BF and was more or less inviting other doctors to poke fun at it.

liath....link, please, to the doctor's forum

They may like some new guests to join in

We had some fun a couple of years ago when someone found a nannies' forum where we learnt what some nannies really think of mothers and breastfeeding....

You know, I think I am going to suggest to Doctor H that he doesn't actually need his early-morning tea, or his mid-morning coffee, or his afternoon bikkie.

He doesn't need any of these things for the nutrition - after all, he has other solids and fluids.

What possible benefit can he get from these things?

It's really a dreadful indulgence, him insisting on drinking coffee and tea - shouldn't he have grown out of these things by now? I think it's the GMTV tea lady forcing these things on him, for her own benefit.

BabiesEverywhere - fantastic job on the GMTV forum

I can't believe some of the nonsense being spouted though, some people just don't have a clue.

I am sitting here feeding my almost 3yo, it really saddens me that some people feel so disgusted by it. I am actually quite amazed that people feel so strongly about something of which they have no experience, and which DOES NOT AFFECT THEM

BabiesEverywhere, just read your posts to the GMTV forum - brilliant and far more patient and good humoured than those eejits actually deserve.....

And this from the GMTV website is bugging me

"What is the correct age to stop breastfeeding your child? Or should mothers not be subjected to an age limit? Join in the debate"

No it's not join in the debate, there is no debate. You feed if you want, don't if you don't and it's nothing to do with anyone else!!!

Tatties & Tiktok, Thanks for the lovely comments

As my mum said you catch more flies with honey, than vinegar.

Hopefully the links to Hunker's blog, Kellymom and the Natural Age of Weaning Article will make them think a bit.

I know someone who admits to extending breast feeding and co sleeping as she couldn't face resuming intimacy with her husband,who has since left her for someone else. But she is the first and last I have ever heard say that.Dr Hilary is quite thick tbh as he has talked on several subjects recently esp transplants where his 'knowledge' is so wrong it is scary.

I think a good way of making the GMTV lot see just how ill-informed their information is, and how potentially damaging it could be to people who look to this kind of programme for guidance, is to stop tuning in. Maybe they will then notice a link between this morning's feature, and a sharp decline in viewing figures

Its such a breastfeeding pressure in this country....LOL

i need to catch up on this......missed it today.

I have recorded this.

Not sure I can face watching it.

It's so depressing, this ignorance. And it does my blood pressure no good.

But I think I will watch it, if only to blog about it! I rather think I will have to draft and redraft a couple of times to get all the four-letter words out of my system though.

BE, was the link posted as a clickable one on that forum? Or something people have to C&P?

Is that doctors forum visible to us plebs, Liath?

I keep hearing the "you have to be careful talking about bf (or just plain don't do it) because you make women who couldn't do it feel guilty" - have heard it v recently from a local GP, my MP and one of the local councillors.

There's SO much wrong with that mindset. How will it ever be better for women if it's not talked about?!

All the links I posted on the GMTV site displayed as cut and paste links, despite choosing difference options every time.

Shame, as you could track people from that site visiting you otherwise

BE, no, that's fine - thank you for trying to do them as clickables.

I can see how many people are visiting - and there are considerably more this evening than earlier, so I'm sure I'm getting traffic from it.

Be interesting to see whether anyone comments. I had my first negative comment on the blog the other day - was amazed it'd taken so long, really!

hunker you should watch it, really, if only to cheer on Jenny. She was absolutely fab clearly sane and articulate and left HJ having to mumble about "some people might think..." because he would clearly be on a non-starter trying to suggest that she was in any way bonkers or bizarre.

Shame about your first negative comment.

Sadly it was bound to happen and it does show that your links are being passed to those who are uneducated in breastfeeding issues, of course these people need your site more than the average visitor

Hunker - i want to watch it too - shall we make a date next week, or you can give it to me after??

I missed all this and have just read through the thread. The sound of my jaw hitting the floor at Dr H's comments almost woke ds1 up.

It's misogyny, isn't it? Surprise surprise. It's an idea of bf being a misappropriation of breasts and of women's energies - from men. And it's an unease with powerful mother-child bonds. Hence the bizarreness of the reference to an over-1 as a 'grown-up child'.

The wording of 'debate' questions as suggesting that one could 'subject' mothers to an age limit is a Freudian slip of wishful thinking.

Invisible to plebs I'm afraid, hunker, but some robust defence of extended BF did occur on it so all is not lost!

I thought it was worth watching as Jenny made such a good job of presenting it as such a normal, natural thing to do, you could see Dr Hilary having to eat his words .

There are some really weird people on that GMTV chat thread, it's like an alternate universe.