why does j lo just get a wet nurse? if she doesn't want to bf?

[robinrednomorenowemptybreasts]

if i had all her money and i didnt want to thats what id do, at least for a few months anyway.

robinred....

Am I to understand that you have recently ceased breastfeeding ?

If so, it appears to have created an emotional black hole in your life which you are attempting to fill. It seems that you are trying to work through your withdrawal symptoms by starting threads to discuss how awful it is that some women, even some celebrity mothers with all the financial resorces available to them, choose not to breastfeed. This grief at the loss of breastfeeding as a part of your parental role in life is not a good advert for starting breastfeeding in the first place is it. You are not doing the breastfeeding cause and good here and need to give it a rest love.

Get off mumsnet and spend some stimulating time with your higher IQ level children and revel in their glow of breastmilk sourced superior health.

i dont care to get into the breast bottle threads. i was just pointing out that statistics are very valid.
i dont think mark twainwas particularly mathematical, and therefore idont particularly think his comments about statistics anything other than a witty comeback to someone about something he had no understanding of. ie. his comment is irrelevant.
sabire wantst o discuss the issue rationally. i think she is doing a remarkable job, considering that most people dont want to on this thread. and looking at the op, i dont think this is reall y the right place for an educated, intellignet, informed discussion about infant feeding. its got a celebrity in the title!

OK - I take it all back.

I know nothing about JLo or her personality. Except what I've read in 10 000 celebrity gossip magazines.

She's probably an absolutely lovely person and not in the least bit controlling.

I apologise whole heartedly for any heartache I might have caused to those reading this thread and to Jlo herself, in the unlikely event of her stumbling onto mumsnet during an idle moment between photoshoots and dress fittings.

sitdownpleasegeorge: maybe you'd also like to take this opportunity to apologise for the hurtful, personal comments to robinred in your last post.

Go on - you'll feel better for it.

I know I do.

well i find it hard breastfeeding one child so personally i dont her.

Sabire,

I'm afraid you are not impartial although I find you a great deal more rational and higher up the ambassador for breastfeeding scale than robin.

It needed saying for robin as much as for re-dressing the balance on MN.

Seriously people who are evangelical about a cause are not always the best PR for whatever it is they are besotted with.

I'm potentially supporting breastfeeding in general by suggesting robin gives it a rest from these unsubtle threads on MN. The facetious last line is intended to demonstrate that I am not ignorant of the benefits of breastfeeding in much the same way as robin is tactless about people who chhose to ff, decribing it as "a shame" and suggesting that JLo should miss out on the bonding time whilst feeding her children just so that they could have breastmilk from any old Tracey,Davina or Harriet wetnursing her twins in return for payment. Bonding happens with ff too you know, those lovely long feeding cuddles are all part of it whether you bf or ff.

Anyway, sitdown, even if you did apologise to robin, I'm quite sure she wouldn't see your post. She's just starting argumentative threads, then leaving. Beats having a life I suppose..

I thought about this while going to sleep last night.FF was always a very natural choice for me.Why?

Well I aqm working class and grew up on a council estate with large catholic families and was always surrounded by lots of babies ALL ff.

It was not until I was an adult I saw someone bf and that was my cousins wife who was from a middle class family.

Did this influence by choice? Possibly.I do see ff as natural but I am not conditioned entirely by my class though thoroughly proud of it

For me,as said before on here I was completely done in by end of pgs and had nothing physically left to give.Also milk did not arrive till day 5 (two sections) so bf would have been difficult and did not want to put my baby through five days of getting nothing.

Possibly had I not thought ff was natural then I might have beat myself up a bit about it.But I dont and for me it was the right choice.

Again as mentioned before I will NEVER understand how women can get so heated about this.There are far more important issues surrounding children besides how you feed them.

CP-for me,bf isnt just about how mums feed their babies.i has to do with womens' rights as well.yes,most of the time it is an individual's choice but i tend to think about what things influence those choices.which is why i get so het up about slebs ffing.

anyway,nobody has complained about people judging j-lo's choice of decor

I read an article recently about a wet nurse to hollywood celebs. It was all done by expressing and freezing. She earned a lot.

Not read the whole thread but why does anyone care how Jennifer Lopez feeds her babies?

Imagine being in her shoes. It's public knowledge that she had fertility issues. Ever since she was married, she has been asked if she was pregnant. It's hard enough not being able to conceive, but to always be on "baby watch" makes it even harder. I don't think anyone with fertility issues would want to be asked if they were pregnant every day. Now that her babies are born people are judging how she feeds her babies.

Robin get over it.

I agree with you chocpeanut.

I really cannot and will never 'get' why people get so worked up about feeding.

Whenever i do mention this or say i dont really what care people do i get slated cos i am a midwife. Like thats all i do is help bf ers all day. My job is that and a whole lot more.

You're a midwife carmenelectra?

Our hospital is working towards 'Babyfriendly' status.

Our infant feeding policy states that 'all parents should be informed of the risks of artificial feeding'.

I don't know whether talking about feeding choices is part of your work, but if it is, what do you tell women about this subject?

As you presumably work in the 21st century NHS I'd assume you'd be required to give women 'evidence based' information. So what evidence do you refer to?

No sabire im not talking about work when i say i dont care.

What i mean is i dont get why people get so so worked up on these threads about how women choose to feed their babies.Ive never encounted anything quite like this in real life. Ever.So im only commenting on practically every feeding thread ive read!

I am not gonna get wrapped up in another argument, where it is suggested that i dont care at work or that i dont give decent bf support. No way.I do care.

j-lo's dad is a computer technician and her mum's a teacher.

so regardless of any stats she doesn't fit the stated class profile.

sure she's glad that she pulled off the 'jenny from the block' thing rather than 'jenny from the nice tree-lined street'

other than that i second the whole it's every woman's own choice business...

and i'm going now before someone gets hurt

Really? I wouldn't, no way. I am very upset that bfing didn't work out for ds and next time around I will try harder but if it doesn't work out there is no way that I would employ a wet nurse even if I was as rich as J-lo. I suppose that I must be a terrible mother.

apparently wet nurses are coming back into vogue!