I farking hate...

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Clare byam-cook.
Am I the only person to have seen her terrible co-sleeping interview the other day?

So true snoop. What worried me most was here dismissal of baby's need to wake hourly. Some do!! and they need to be fed hourly to get the milk supply up. Others don't. I think it's terrible she says such things. Have tried to find who she learnt this with, cannot find anything so far.....

yes she said that! she was dreadful.

and e holmes and his dozy wife were lapping it up.

Apparently her qualification is working as a midwife. Which she stopped doing in 1985 Has worked as a bfing specialist for 20 years. How do you become a specialist with no qualifications? It's baffling to me. She gets most clients through word of mouth apparently. Now I must tear my eyes out and wipe my history from going on that bloody webiste to find that out.

She was also on This Morning when they were discussing extended bf. She made the statement that it's 'unnecessary' to bf beyond 6 months.

Why do they always bring her on and why is she referred to as a bf expert??

Clare says: "Babies do not need to be cuddled when they are asleep. If co-sleeping carries on into the child's toddler years - it is a lot harder to tell a toddler that they can no longer sleep with their parents, so you just shouldn't start it!" (quote from CBC).

Um, I would never tell my toddler that they're no longer welcome in our bed anyway, and I don't think many co-sleepers would. Ds has his own bed and he's happy to start the night there but is he wakes and wants to come in with us he's always welcome.

Why is it that all forms of attachment parenting are described as parents making a rod for their own back?? Is our parenting only deemed a success if we've managed to make our children completely independent by one year old?

How strange. And sad.

What bolleaux.

I co slept with DD and she moved happily to her own bed at 2, and has consistently slept through since then.

And does she not understand even the basics of BF - ie, supply linked to demand, so frequent night feeding is often necessary for babies?

Proud co-sleeping parent here. Her toasty little feet save me having to fill up a hot water bottle now the cold weather is here.

CBC told me that I would never successfully breast feed when my daughter was 6 days old. I breastfed til 7 months (had to do some supplementing and LOTS of pumping as had crappy supply, but still). She spent most of the visit telling me how to bottle feed her! bollocks to that.

Really Thalia?
She personifies everything that is wrong with breastfeeding support in this country, IMO.

Do you know, I am having dim memories of hearing her talking about BF support...

IIRC she said 'support' for BF was a ridiculous notion and women just needed showing how to do it right (or words to that effect)

Wouldn't surprise me.

Here

I can't even be bothered to start picking her 'argument' apart.

Suffice to say I'd love to ask her some questions about it.

Cow

In fact her sentiment there deserves its own thread...

Scary thay she's a baby feeding consultant.

"what you need to do is shape the breast so it's doughnut-shaped rather than apple-shaped, and when the baby's mouth opens you shove her on and she starts feeding happily away"

What??

She doesn't come across as a supporter of bf at all.

Innit

What about mothers who have the latch perfected?
I've never had a latch problem but there have been times I was so exhausted I was ready to leave the baby in the garden a la Claire Verity and rock myself into a little hedgehog like ball to hibernate for the winter. Would she have agreed with me that I just didn't have enough milk? Seems they are the only two problems a breastfeeding mother ever has, a poor latch or not enough milk.....

Yes VS. you should have called it a day and accepted that you are one of the millions of women who cannot bf while reaching for the (just as good) formula.

Yeah, you should have accepted that all this 'militancy and hysteria' about BF was just unhelpful

If you google her name the fvirst two are SWMNBN's site, the third is the times and the rest is places that sell her book. Except on page two. The discussion in 'mumsnet live chats' is on there!! Maybe we should bump it up to the top of the results