Just when thought we found a breastfeeding star.

[kkdmom]

ho-hum.

It is interesting to note that the study about the rats and the chips was funded by the Wellcome Trust - a "charitable organisation" who get their money from pharmaceutical companies

yes i am feeling ok. still being sick though, but not too bad atm.

you can swaddle a chipshaped baby easier though, right?

lol.

Ummm, you'd be hard pressed to find a more respected scientific resource than the Wellcome Trust.

I'm not saying they're not respected. I'm saying their money comes from (their own) pharmaceutical companies - so a study like this is kind of what they're after!!

Anyway, I'm parping myself from these threads now.

Haven't read the whole thread yet but just wanted to say I had DD when I was 19 and am still bfing her now, she'll be 2 in September! [boast] So I guess I'm in the minority in my age group?

I can't really boast as such because I didn't have to overcome any of the problems you lovely ladies have had, so respect to you all.

No bloody idea how to stop now though

Sorry but I have to correct that about the Wellcome trust.

Yes, they were set up in 1936 using a bequest from the will of a pharmaceutical manafacturer. But they are not "funded by pharmaceutical companies". They are completely independent and do not have any strings attached to their funding.

As Margo says, they are one of the most respected scientific funding bodies in the UK.

JamInMyWellies - "Sabire I have to disagree with you I fed on demand up until 6mth and must have spent the national debt on breast pads my boobs leaked all the time."
were you buying disposable breastpads then? Surely buying reusable ones would have been easier, just chuck them in the washing machine with your usual wash... you wouldn't have spent so much, I imagine. Just a thought.

"what, do you mean she should have said no to a crack team of midwives if she could afford them?"

Errr, no. How on earth did you read that into my comment?

"she's done great"

Yes - a wealthy young woman with excellent health, who had a normal birth, loads of support and one child has done 'great' to do six months of something that is actually a normal, biological function, something that tens of millions of less healthy, poor women with large numbers of small children have done every day, without expecting to be given a medal for it.

But then I suppose the barriers to breastfeeding in this country are there...... they just take a different form.

The problem with media is they generally focus on what they want too much rather than give a true picture. They could have asked Charlotte (maybe they did or did not) what she loved about nursing her baby (as she said she did) rather than focus completely on why she stopped and at the end of the day she was talking about her experience.

Saw her on the Jonathan Ross show last week and she spoke about using formula too.

pitufina I did have some reusable pads but they looked liked giant flying saucers through my t-shirts so went for the marginally more discreet throwaway. Also they never stayed in one place put them in at night time would wake up in the morning and they would be round my back.

Dryad, you are right, I suppose when she was talking that was probably what popped into her head as a downside so she said it.

I think that people have been quite mean though (not you). I mean, we say, "well done, you did great" and maybe next time she would be inclined to BF longer than she did this time. Instead, people jump on her (I say, as if she is actually here), surely that sort of reaction will simply make someone feel that they have not done well enough?

JamInMyWellies - Fair enough. I think I'd forgotten how large they do look, I've got that to look forward to again as I'm due in september.