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.

[BabiesEverywhere]

What a total waste of 25 minutes of ...Hunker you missed nothing. Anyway back to the washing.

[BabiesEverywhere]

Kazy, well we don't need to tell your DH that Shall we tell him that you need breakfast in bed and chocolate on tap to breastfeed

[milkgoddessmakesthefinestmilk]

that fucking dr was terrible sas well, oh dear !

[kayzisexpecting]

Yes that would be great. Thanks very much

[misdee]

i misssed most of it as well. what was the point of critising a campaign that 'ignores 50 000 women a year' ? whatr is wrong with making sure women know about breastfeeding?

who was the woman who pointed out that after the war that working classes breastfed whilst the upper classes didnt and used formula milk, and about her mum struggling to afford formula in africa. that made me feel really sad and angry.

[milkgoddessmakesthefinestmilk]

how fucking arrogant as well, the way he turns down the sound of the callers so he can talk over them, hardley a fair or even disscussion

[Louise76]

Now I know why I never watch channel 5!! The woman who was supposedly pro-bf didn't seem to know what she was trying to say and in the end didn't actually say anything informative so that was a waste of time. Did anyone else notice that her baby was drinking from a bottle the whole time (let's hope it was EBM eh

Also, I thought it was appalling that Matthew Wright butted in with a cheap gag about Christopher Biggins helping a woman to hand express when the doctor was trying to speak to some poor woman who phoned in for advice.

Lowest common denominator shite TV - rant over!!

[milkgoddessmakesthefinestmilk]

actually that woman phoning for when to express advice, just wasted valuble time imo, she could of asked anyone that!

[milkgoddessmakesthefinestmilk]

fiofio, is he always an arrogant twat?

[PeachyHas4BoysAndLovesIt]

milkgoddess, perhaps she doesn't have anyne else to ask?

She should be applauded for going out of herway to get advice, not lambasted for it.

Sadly so many people don't even know about the existence of BF Counsellors- the MW here and the HV don't ever refer to or even mention them, for a start. I only found out there was a local BF cafe from MN!

[fabsmum]

Amazing how they could have a 25 minute slot which was primarily about women being unable to breastfeed and how it makes them feel, and manage not to mention breastfeeding counselling ONCE.

[wonderstuff]

Just watching on fiver, my mother had 40 years of guilt ffs. What should we do? pretend formula is just as good? And formula companies ads are soo informative

[wonderstuff]

Sticky, yucky milk omg

[TinkerbellesMum]

"Sticky, yucky milk omg"

Yes, I was at that too!

[TinkerbellesMum]

For kayzisexpecting

[fabsmum]

Have sent obligatory offensive e-mail, subject matter: "Matthew Wright - do your research you lazy twat"

[TinkerbellesMum]

"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."

Yeah and how many times did he say it? Was he trying to ram the point home? How about that "I could be thrown in prison tomorrow" line?

[TinkerbellesMum]

BabiesEverywhere it was 14 days for me! That was with pumping for half an hour every 4 hours day and night and putting her to the breast everyday.

[TinkerbellesMum]

Ooooh, Fabsmum, let us know the answer!

[BabiesEverywhere]

TinkerbellesMum, Is that 14 days for your milk to come in ?!?

[harpsichordcarrier]

yes the answer to women having difficulty bf is of course to tell them formula is just as good and that "breast is best" is a load of old nonsense dreamed up by mad hippies who only care about making you feel guilty.
ffs.
because women are stupid of course.

[itwasntme]

I live overseas and so have not watched the show, but am at some of the comments here.

It is a valid issue.. why wouldn't it be?. I have exactly this problem with my second baby... first was BF till 18 months.

With second baby, my milk really never came in properly, despite hours of pumping for weeks... days in bed with baby, visits to breastfeeding counsellor. My baby got dehydrated and dangerously weak. I had to give formula.. I had no choice. I will never forgive myself for not being able to give my son what I gave my daughter. I had a shit birth, due to shit system in the ciountry I live in, and then I had to give him shit milk. Poor thing.

I was embarrassed to ff in public.. wanted to explain myself to everyone,and spent the first month of my son's life in tears over this.

Bitchy sneery comments frankly do not help. Failure to breastfeed does happen for whatever reason. People feel bad about it. Why can't they talk about it?