Did no-one else see Casualty? BBC managing to normalise FF again.

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I've checked to see if anyone else started a thread about this but it seems no-one has.

Maggie's daughter was whining that she was having trouble feeding the baby and she was going to switch to bottles. Maggie said "breast is best".

Switch to the staff room and Tess is handing over a bottle trotting out the "happy mum happy baby" line.

Then in the pub the mum tells Toby she's "claimed them back" and is no longer feeding.

Why does the BBC persist in this anti-breastfeeding stance? What is the relevance of a BF storyline in Casualty anyway?!!

there was a thread last night that sort of covered these issues, but it wasn't sparked by Casualty, I don't think.

FWIW, I broadly agree with Roca, but got roundly ticked off last night so ain't saying anything more tonight. promised myself I'd try to behave and not be so judgemental.

That really is bizarre. Are all the writers on Casualty blokes? Because no-one that I know in RL or on MN goes out to the pub to celebrate that they've "claimed back" their breasts (for her DH/DP???). There are so many MN threads where people are sad that it didn't work out, or even feel guilty.

I didn't see this but it took me months before I stopped leaking milk and I started mixed feeding at 3mo. I really think the BBC should get their act together.

It's Casualty. That show should have been done away years ago, it's so discriminatory and biased - so many ridiculous stereoptypes I can't believe they still get away it.

Formula isn't poison though.

Many women can't breastfeed, or breastfeed for as long as they can before switching to formula. When bf doesn't work out it could be encouraging for a despondent mum to see a TV character switching to FF with nairy a backward glance. How many of you were FF? how many of your DPs/Dhs? As a result you're/they're not all rickets-ridden thick-arses are you? .

Well, then.

LMFAO at Cocodebear.

I think that at the end of the day since having my DS Casualty and Love Soup are my only form of entertainment on a Saturday night and I don't intend to 'Boycott' Casualty as a result of a comment or scene which I'm sorry is just as normal as breastfeeding it wouldn't be realistic for everyone in TV LAND to BF would it? I didnt and there are many more like me so why should everyone on TV?

well then, what? isn't that what they just did, showed her chucking in bfing without so much as a leaky tit?

expat, you should see what they do with ectopic preg cases... apparently you get them when you or your partner sleeps around and is a slag.

No formula certainly isn't poison, and I've just been arguing about that on the other thread that was mentioned. But switching to formula as a last resort is very different from having a character switch because, apparently, she can't be arsed and she wants her boobs back. Of course any woman is entitled to switch to formula for whatever reasons she chooses, but it isn't a helpful message to put out there.

ybnd, i can't help but think that your name is quite the hostage to fortune...

'expat, you should see what they do with ectopic preg cases... apparently you get them when you or your partner sleeps around and is a slag. '

and they all result in emergency, radical hysterectomies.

true story.

You know you're right about that Aitch. When they used to feature the obstetrics ward on Holby City, you could pretty much guarantee that any pregnancy complication was caused by the mother being a loose woman.

and all Welsh people are clod-hopping, thick yokels, all Scottish people have drink problems, all Asian women are cowed and abused by the men in their lives, etc.

it's a load of tripe, the entire show.

I didn't leak when I stopped BFing DS2 or 3...........

yes, and any pregnancy complication usually meant a profoundly disabled or dead baby and an emergency hysterectomy.

gay men, seriously, that's who's writing those shows. at least the scriptwriters i've met for HC/Cas were all screamers.

LMFAO at ATC (far too long for me)

I didn't do anything this time! For once I was making a valid point.... well I thought so!

i didn't either, FAQ, cos my supply was so shite. but it's not the norm, i don't think. and i do think on matters of public health the bbc should remember their public service remit (where it's not dramatically important either way, obv. if the situation develops it might be interesting, having said that).

OP:
"BBC managing to normalise FF again"

But it is normal!

This site is largely populated by middle-class, well-educated women who sacrifice their sex life/drinking life/eating oranges life for six months plus so they can do the right thing. But this is not "normal". The majority of women in this country don't even start Bfing.

oh I had a fabulous supply with DS3, when he was cosleeping with me and feeding off one side I'd literally be running like a tap from the other on

"middle-class, well-educated women who sacrifice their sex life/drinking life/eating oranges life for six months plus so they can do the right thing"

exactly the sort of ghastly stereotyping and misinformation that the BBC could do something about if it wanted to.

you freaky middle-class, well-educated woman, FAQ.

Oh dear... I managed to bf and eat have sex/drink wine/eat oranges. And I'm sure as hell not middle class or particularly well educated.

Was I getting it all wrong?

The point is that bf is physiologically normal. The fact that it is culturally not the norm in this country is Not Good and should be challenged by public service organisations. Such as the BBC.

Hmm, nice post and run action there, coco.

Obv. eating oranges is more important than giving my baby the best start in life (with usual disclaimer that I was lucky it came easily to me etc.), but perhaps I should re-examine my priorities.

(Though actually I did eat oranges. And have sex.)