I HATE all this pussyfooting around!

[pandaface]

Iv just read a post about someones ff story, and have also commented on it.
Why are people so scared to say, "Well, at least try bf, its the best you can do for your baby."

Instead of all this "Is a mothers right to chose how to feed."
Well, yes, but it isnt the babies choice to be raised on powdered cows milk, compared to the PERFECT milk that is breastmilk.

Yes, sometimes its hard, and downright painful, but surely, as mothers, its something we should EXPECT to have to do? Motherhood isnt easy, so why is feeding the first thing people skimp on effort with?

i note this is your second post, the first being your utterly charming comment on flubdub's thread.

i think you are a troll.

pandaface, what rot. [skimps on effort not to laugh]

Pandaface - there's the door, sweetheart.

Now (to steal a phrase from another MNer)

Off you fuck.

CAn I just say (after much wine I admit) Fuck right off.

They are not necessarily scared - just more tactful!
Unless you have lived in a cave for 10 years we all know bf is best - but some women still don't want to and some can't.
I feel very lucky to have bf dd & but don't see how upsetting a Mum is going to help feeding matters

Im not trolling!
What part of;
"Yes, sometimes its hard, and downright painful, but surely, as mothers, its something we should EXPECT to have to do? Motherhood isnt easy, so why is feeding the first thing people skimp on effort with?"
deserves for me to be told to fuck off?

It was a genuine question.

Jackstini; NOT every mum knows that bf is best imho.

if you aren't trolling (errm are you new or a name changer??) then you are at best a nitwit and at worst extremely spiteful.

all the 'pussyfooting around' is about having respect and consideration for others' feelings.

Im a namechanger! And?
What have I said that is spiteful?

Im sure Im not the only person that thinks that mothers JUST SHOULD expect to breastfeed.

lol. you are a troll... go on, admit it...

Why should every mother EXPECT to bf?

Should my friend, who was sexually abused and has a horror of breasts and breastfeeding, expect to put herself through the torture of breastfeeding her child? Or does she not deserve to have a child because she doesn't want to breastfeed?

It is not your business to tell mothers what they should or should not be doing. And IME a large proportion of FF mums started off BFing and ended up FFing through bad advice, or lack of confidence or a myriad of other reasons.

So - i will reiterate. Fuck. Off.

Oooh, aitch, you frolicker!

you're not a namechanger. if you've been on here five minutes you'll know that your OP would only ever be met with a 'fuck right off'. [miss marple]

I knew it was best.

I wanted to BF.

Didn't happen.

There are lots of reasons and if you are still so naive about the whole thing well ... sorry but my prev post stands.

Every sodding week we have a similar thread started by someone as unknowledgeable as you and every week some mother who is doing her bloody best is made to feel shit. So. Bugger off.

anyway we are not pussyfooting around you pandatrollface

Some mothers can't bf for some reason, and there is no need to make them feel terrible about it. And it is their right to decide.

Maybe not Pandaface but this one DID and she is doing her best to bf now - so she is not one to have a go at!

Ooh, she's taken our advice and fucked off.

Happy mums make for happy babies.

Mums made to feel guilty about the choices they have made (or had made for them by circumstances) are not happy.

Work the rest out for yourself OP!

hate that reasoning, as it happens, as it leaves mums who are not bfing and are unhappy about with unhappy babies. i used to want to punch people's lights out when they told me that, tbh.

Doesn't leave mums with PND in a very happy place either.

also true, UD.

Yes but that is why MN is great.

I know I was very unhappy at the time about mix feeding DD1, but I got a lot of understanding and support here about the circumstances that led to it. Which did in time help me put the whole thing into perspective.

If posters like the OP had her way, we'd all feel guilty all the time about something or another.

Okay I accept that I phrased badly.

Maybe I should have said - don't make mums feel bad, they've got enough on their plates already!