tomorrow on the matthew wright show, bottle feeding guilt

[alright]

last bit of the show promoting tomorrows he says "are all these pro breastfeeding campaigns making mothers who bottle feed feel guilty" we discuss this tomorrow.

[PeachyHas4BoysAndLovesIt]

or 'i was told i justdidnt have enough milk'.... (as everybody over the of 50 i know tells me)

[VictorianSqualor]

ah they didn't have enough milk because they had a 'big' or 'hungry' baby.

[PeachyHas4BoysAndLovesIt]

that's the one.... and if the baby wasn't big then it was always hungry

or as mum said, she was told by mw i was too hungry for bf because i fed more than every 4 hours

[Sanguine]

Hey, give over! My milk really didn't come in! Not till I had pumped my boobs mercilessly for weeks, and DS had been rushed to SCBU to be rehydrated. It does happen you know, and the emotional feelings of failure are almost too much to bear. We got through, but it was touch and go, and pumping a supply in doesn't work for everyone. I can sympathise with folk in that situation.

[VictorianSqualor]

It does happen, true, but too many peopel are told it is happening when it probably isn't.

[Sanguine]

..whereas I was told it wasn't happening when it actually was

[wurlywoo]

Joy.. yet another reason to feel guilty like we are the worst mums in the world..

lol at you tinkerbellesmum.. random thought but so true.. quite dishy the pair of them with Jeremy leading slightly on that point or am I with bad taste??!

[hercules1]

I was told my milk wasnt enough as dd was a big baby. Same for ds too. Fortunately I knew they were talking crap for dd.

[TinkerbellesMum]

wurlywoo close call! I think he hates even more that JK is on at the same time as him. The muslim lady that's on at the moment had a nasty email yesterday because she let Biggins kiss her, it got worse when she said "So? He's gay". Matthew told him to go and watch that thing on the other side he wasn't welcome to watch his show lol

[StealthPolarBear]

lol can I join in with the bingo?
My money's on "happy mum, happy baby"
PMSL at peachy and her shiraz boobs

[StealthPolarBear]

Is one side red and the other white?

[PeachyHas4BoysAndLovesIt]

if its based on my lifetime intake, it's either grenache or lanson lol

[BouncingTurtle]

BTW are you referring to The Wright Stuff at 9am on Five?
I hope so because I have just set it up to record!

[kayzisexpecting]

I'm not going to watch it as Matthew Wright does my head in.

I felt horribly guilty for ff DS. I couldn't bf. He wouldn't latch on. I didn't really have any milk, an hour of pumping gave under 1oz of milk. If he wasn't ff he would have starved.

I'm determined to bf this baby. Hoping to get some help this time as the HV's were useless.

[hunkermunker]

No-one said "Formula's not poison" yet? Because obviously anyone who supports breastfeeding thinks it is Way to put words in our mouths, eh?

He's a child-hater, Matthew Wright - a sneery, shallow one - I am fully expecting a debate that will do nothing to further anybody's views. It will simply entrench positions and reassert the view that what ought to be a supportive, kind thing is actually some sort of versus war

[BabiesEverywhere]

'Can't Feed' seems to be the slant in the promo...roll on 10am (This will be depressing)

[BouncingTurtle]

He has already made me x 10000, by his comment about it being the law to say breast is best, and implying that he thinks it's nonsense.

[rascal1979]

He's already said that FF did him no harm!

[BouncingTurtle]

I'm turning this off. It won't be a reasoned debate, just a nasty sensationalist bunfight.

[BouncingTurtle]

I too was ff, and I'm pretty healthy, yet I still feel that bfing is the optimum way of feeding ds.

[BellaBear]

'the thousands of women who can't feed their tots the way nature intended'

i am really interested in this, how many women can't? (really not intended as a slur on anyone's choices, it's just one of my friends who was advised she couldn't and she doesn;t think it was true)

plus on a totally different note, i hate the woord tots. don't knoiw why

[BabiesEverywhere]

I would be interested in the number of women who have physically problems which prevent them from breastfeeding AND the number of women who are told they can't feed, due to lack of support and poor information. Sadly I reckon the second number will be much higher than the first.

[PeachyHas4BoysAndLovesIt]

Kayz you can do it this time- you'll get laods of support here. All mne were fed for a bit longer each time then it would go badly awry and as a result my milk would drop off; with ds1 just a few weeks until he was dangerously underweight; ds2 a few months (with mixed feeding); ds3 16 months with mixed feeding- but with ds2 and ds3 Paeds told us to introduce formula early on, always before a month.

This time instead of talking to apeds I talked to tiktok and dontcha know it was a casein intolerance, same as we discovered two boys had later in life. This one is now 5 weeks, growing well and there is no reason tot hink I won't be able to BF exclusively until he weans

[hunkermunker]

Peachy, that's SO fantastic! Tiktok is fab.

I am glad I haven't access to a TV atm...

Who they think they're helping, I'm not sure. Myth-perpetuating is what he's good at though - shallow, tabloidy worm that he is. He and Jeremy Kyle are daytime TV twins - except JK at least sets himself up as someone who tries to help people (freaks though they may be) - quite how Matthew Wright's existence helps anyone...

[PeachyHas4BoysAndLovesIt]

Embarassingly I do watch Jermey Kyle (although only for lastfew weeks as baby nrmally feeds at thsi time, been up all night though so zonked- lucky so and so). But I don't feel bad because ultimately his guests choose to be on there, and frankly it's quite reassuring to get a daily dose making-a-bigger-mess-than-me!

Whereas Matthew Wright is a prat, he really is. He didnt seem too bad when the show first started but then we lost C5 and when we got it back it was unwatchable! Loose Women went the same way- either that or I grew up a bit anyway.

Sayingt hat I got more excited about medieval week on the history channel so maybe it's me that changed....