Gah! Ulrika spouting off in today's Evening Standard

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Yes, it's in response to Kate Garraway on cross-nursing/wet-nursing. The bit I love (not) is her statement that formula is the "time-honoured", "modern" alternative. As if wet nursing was something newly invented by flaky Californians?

I do respect her opinion but wish she would get her facts straight

and M&Ms melt in yuor milk and not in your hand mmmm

Surely if more people were to do it/consider it, it wouldn't be quite so . People have no qualms in injecting god-knows-what into their faces, but they say cross-feeding is "unatural"!

she nearly "choked on her cereal"?? fgs get a grip.

well tiktok you learn something new every day - bet you're glad you read the article now

i chowed down on jalepeno pappers pg,drank big Tom had spicy cravings pg.BF i still ate eat curry/mexican/spicy - result lo loved it too

weaned on mild curry and spices too

Fizzy milk priceless!wonder if irn bru turns it orange and/or fizzy

mmmmm iron bru!!

I ate whatever i fancied and still do. Result? So far, broccolli is the only thing ds point blank refuses to eat and chicken tikka massala is his favourite food!

I didn't give up any food, had no idea that I was supposed to.

Can't but help feeling that my BM wasn't top notch quality as I ate far too much chocolate too be healthy.

mmmmm chocolate milk!!!

Nononono CrackFox. That makes it much better.

As does consuming vast quantities of cake.

I'm having some bizarre pregnancy cravings (mainly involving pickled stuff...) so i'm hoping ds doesn't suddenly start having an aversion to mackerel flavoured milk...or, worse, start nicking my rollmops!

theSuburbanDryad LOL aye we like a curry too im veggie wee one not though.LO likey it spicy and loves daal

But CrackFox, chocolate is an essential component of breastmilk, didn't you know? Especially when it comes in the form of rich dark chocolate cake with cream...

(It's also essential during pregnancy...)

Aha, SuburbanDryad. I see we think along the same lines.

Especially if it's Cornish clotted cream.

I found cream teas to be an essential component of breastfeeding. There's no way ds would have thrived without the vast amount of scones and jam i consumed!

Does an enormous quantity of Jaffa cakes improve BM too? Might be Vit C in the Jaffa bit I suppose.

mmmm, cream tea!

ages since I had one, what a good idea. All adds to the flavour of the breastmilk, of course. It's the baby I'm thinking of, not me!

I read (could this possibly be true?!) that a Finnish study proved that the more chocolate you ate when you were pregnant the more your baby would smile. Works for me

Leaving aside the truly ridiculous fact-mangling, here's a list of (some of) the comments UJ makes about women who cross nurse, and the idea of cross nursing

• bonkers
• lunacy
• abhorrent
• smug
• pompous
• insulting
• deluded
• dangerous

And she accuses the 'breast is best faction' (who they???) of 'making mothers feel guilty'.

Is anyone going to leave a comment?

They haven't left a comment. I suspect that they will wait until they have some more pro-Ulrika stuff.

They haven't published my comment, i mean.

Stillstanding, do you have the research on that? If you don't, could you make some up

Combustible, I promise you I read that! Will try to back up with some hard evidence (other than my own which is unequivocally in favour) ...

On the comments - I thought the one they had published was pretty unhelpful tbh

Here you go Combustible!

Ulrika is hardley an intellectual heavy weight is she.more like speak your weight presenter

i dont actually think these articles alter or impede choices mums make.we have volition we chose, and corroborate with assorted facts,prefernces etc. this is too complex to solely be media. class, peer pressure, confidence, socio-economic demographics all influence feeding

not some airhead from telly, who cant waoit to get her snitch on tv or trashy mag

and yes i do think their are BF zealots who do guilt mums out about their choices

and i wont be provocative and respond to shouts of "name Them then" as that is an unhelpful digression. But many BF zealots post prolifically on MN, as is their prerogative