Conservative Party advert promoting bottle feeding

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uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_kbaXYPmjU0

Shame we don't live in a country where they could have shown the baby happily feeding NATURALLY without being inundated with complaints, and instead show it sucking on a bit of rubber.

sorry link uk.youtube.com/watch?v=_kbaXYPmjU0

you know, i can see why they wouldn't show bfing really (not that i agree) but they might at least have used a bigger child...

I dont know how DC sleeps at night.

I agree with you, but I feel others won't.

Perhaps the point is that bottle-feeding is expensive?
No, they just didn't even think about it did they? And that's the problem isn't it, that it's seen as the norm.

exactly wenceslas. they wouldn't even have thought about it, lol.

I don't understand why they couldn't show a baby being bfed. Here in Italy the Pampers ad has a mother bfing on it FFS. Is it a demographic thing perhaps? Are they trying to appeal to the section of society who culturally wouldn't consider bfing?

you mean people who wouldn't be bfing a child of that age? a political party wanting to appeal to the majority... i think they might, brange.

I noticed the person speaking didn't have a classic "Tory" accent as well, hence my theory. Or is it now all the rage to do political party ads with regional accents?

That makes me really sad, especially as I am the only one of my NCT antenatal group (of 8) still BF and our LO are only 6 - 8 months.

Hope it might change DH mind about who he votes for though

PS. I think it might be aimed at Sun readers or suchlike, and the tories didn't want people getting confused about the purpose of breasts.

obviously sales of formula are to be used to top up the economy under a conservative government.
arf.
you bf'ers aren't helping, with your freebie milk y'know.

I would have found the ad irritating even if a boob had been put in the baby's mouth

or maybe the gb greedy formula guzzlers are about to enter the sunlight of change in the conservative, bfing, post-guzzle empire.

cute baby though, ff or not. can i have one?

they're not actually 'promoting' bottle feeding are they? They're just showing a baby drinking from a bottle - as millions do.

i suppose that it does stealthily reinforce bfing as the norm, which it isn't, biologically-speaking.

Ridiculous advert which doesn't even say anything. Why will they be saddled with £17k worth of debt?

Absolutely no reason to show a feeding baby, whether bf or ff.

Just shows a lack of understanding on their part.

Don't vote Tory, folks, they'll force feed your baby formula .

Very cute baby!
They could hardly shove a boob into the shot could they.
In all honesty though, it's not necessary to show the baby feeding at all.
Maybe the makers should have thought about all the pro-breastfeeders who would be outraged about seeing a bottle-fed baby rather than all the people who wouldn't be impressed at seeing a boob on screen

the thought of a big wobbly boob entering from the top right of the screen did make me chuckle for a minute or two...

but totally irrelevant to the topic at hand lol.

But the message is a negative one - the baby is born saddled with problems, according to the ad. Breastfeeding is a phenomenally positive image - warm, cuddly, protected. Which would have been contradictory to the message.

That said, I'll bet they never even thought about breastfeeding!

lol, v true...

How is it promoting formula feeding? The advert mererly shows that bottle feeding exists.

Madwoman, a bit like that woodie Allen's movie, where is chased by a gigantic breast. Don't think they have that sense of humour though

Madwoman, a bit like that woodie Allen's movie, where he is chased by a gigantic breast. Don't think they have that sense of humour though