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 lovely advert on between Corrie tonight about how this women is protecting herself against ovarian and breast cancer, protecting her baby against asthma, allergies etc as the camera scans around a cafe to a woman SHOCK, HORROR, breastfeeding no boobs on show or anything.

It was a Health Scotland thing so you Englishers wouldn't have seen it.

is that the one with the two women in the shopping centre cafe?

that sounds fab, that we dont have something simillar here.

and pmsl aitch, never really liked oranges anyway

Unfortunately many people in RL are thick enough to see something on TV and think "oh well she did that so it must be ok/good/best" whatever it is.

Back to the OP now me thinks. Perhaps Maggie, having heard her daughters worries about BF, could of said its ok lots of mums have bf problems but it'll get better and then suggested she call a BF counsellor or go to baby cafe type thing, maybe pulling out list of contacts etc she would of inevitably been given on leaving hospital.

Jordan think hideous, really annoyed me that shoot.

a bf ad on tv?what a good idea.the nhs seem to think its ok to promote immunisations on tv,so why not bf?

unfortunately, i can see us having such ads in england for a long while. maybe when we get simillar laws to scotland re bfing in public...

I thought it was an excellent advert all about the positives of BFing and then a shot of a woman actually BFing her baby with the line "you may not know she is BFing but she and her baby do" or something like that.

can't find it to show you either

found it the obvious cafe one.

NHS Lanarkshire thats my healthboard trust thing

Oh yes great advert but give us a 20 week anomoly scan

ah yes, lis, that's the one i meant. it's good, isn't it?

ah, thats not so good...

xpost, its vvv good. wish we could have something simillar here.

never watch casualty because its shit. All british hospital dramas are shit.

If anyone wants to complain you can do so here

Isn't Maggie's DD portrayed as a bit thick and feckless though? Not exactly a role model.

But Tess is supposed to be sensible!

That is true tortoiseshell.

only read the op but some mums do feel like their breasts aren't theirs when they are breastfeeding and do really feel like they've claimed them back when they stop. don't think it's an unreasonable comment tbh.

i would have thought it would take longer than a few hours for all your milk to dry up and your breasts to return to normal though.

I dunno I was never in that much pain tbh and I don't think i ever accidentally squirted milk anywhere either.

I went out one evening at 7pm, so missing the last feed an by about ten o'clock was in such agony me and my friends went to the loos and they held the door closed whilst I hand expressed in the sink.
Thats how painful I found it!

how old was the baby cos i didn't see the episode.

Baby was born feb so no more than 3 months old.

ah i see. i thought it was a newborn baby. yes then - i should imagine they would definitely hurt by stopping so suddenly.