Breast Feeding on Coronation Street - Negative ?

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Did anyone see it last night. Shaun talking about his new baby and Violet breast feeding ?
I admit I wasn't paying total attention, so may have missed bits, but it seemed really negative.
Same old, same old. When are we going to have a postive storyline ?

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Yeah crap storyline making me cringe. Don't normall watch Corrie.

*normally, baby is very sweet.

Ah, they've gone down the route of "well, she's doing a bit of breastfeeding, but you'll never see it, we'll just show the bottle bit because it's easier" cop-out. Nice.

Surely if the writers knew anything about breastfeeding, they'd know that it would mess with her suply at such an early stage in feeding.

they are a bunch of screaming queens, they don't know anythign about bfing. mind you, my doctors didn't know that about bfing either so it's hard to blame the scriptwriters for that...

f@@@ing hell, oh now they are promoting the mix feeding from like 4 days old are they? the irresponsible bastards. hmmm wonder if they show violet upset in a few weeks as her milk supply is running down, and bf is just getting harder.
and more and more bottles are being used arrrrrrrrrhhhh this is really making me mad !!!!!!!!
corrie have just taken the opt out way as hunker says its easier just to show the bottle grrrrrrr!

pelafina - maybe she's hoping he's so sleep deprived he'll just agree for an easy life!

can someone tell me the point of anthony cotton? He cant act at all. That baby had better acting skills

It was SMA that Jamie brought up to the flat, wasn't it? Or am I wrong? Am starting to wonder if there isn't some kind of cynical underhand sponsorship of the show with all the anti BF messages in there...

I'm yet to watch the last 2 episodes, it's on the sky+. I'll have a look later and see who the writers are. I know someone who writes for them now and then and I hope it's not her as she breastfed her DS!

I do think Corrie could have made it a little more positive. Even if Sean's MW bloke had just replied "surely you want the best for him?" that would have covered it?

I agree it's a total cop out though with the mixed feeding. Actually, I think the most positive thing they could have done would be to not mention feeding choices at all and just let Violet be seen to be breastfeeding, not that you'd notice if it was done right I suppose.

My two penorth - of course soaps don't make people do or not do things BUT they normalise behaviours, they are an influence. Anyone who doesn't think so need to read any study into the influence on the media. Why do advertisers pay such alot of money to advertise - because it works!

As for coronation street - I e mailed and complained to them about their attitude to bfing last year. They had 2 short snippets about it - one where Tyrone and Kirk were sniggering cos they saw a woman bfing and the second where Liam was harping on about going around to a mates and his wife was expressing and how awful this was. These 2 snippets bore no relation to any story line but were in there for laughs it seems.

Alongside the Sean and Violet story - you wonder about their agenda. It is clear that men are writing these storylines.

BTW as an aside - this nonsense about 'not bfing so dad can be involved in the feeding' rubbish. I hear this so many times and it is a big fat excuse for not even trying.

One more thing - wouldn't it be great to see bfing as something NORMAl in popular tv. When I saw a baby being breastfed on a cbeebies programme I thought it was brilliant. No big deal was made of it - just nice normal behaviour.

I totally agree Lindyloo. DH was just saying that the 'wanting to be involved' thing is such rubbish to him. He said he wants our children's needs to come before his needs and that's why he supports me breastfeeding.