Roxy's comments on Eastenders about breastfeeding

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Was anyone else disappointed with her comments that she was didn't like breastfeeding and that all the "middle class" mothers made cross signs at her when she got out the bottle? I can't find any other threads discussing this so if there are could someone link me to them?

I thought it was really appalling generalisation that only middle class mothers breastfeed and they look down on people who don't. Why couldn't she just say she didn't get on with breastfeeding and leave at that - or even bother mentioning it when it's not part of any storyline.

I really expected better from the BBC.

ROFL at chandellina.

thanks all and .

I said to DP that MNers were going to have a field day after that comment!

It was quite bad but everyone makes their own choices I suppose and it's fairly typical of Roxy's character.

I thought that comment was totally unnecessary as well. If they had to make an issue of it why didn't they say it was because she was missing for so long? Better still, not say anything at all.

Whether people like it or not people do take notice of what characters on soaps do and say. Just once it would be nice to see the normalisation on BF instead of it being a shock horror issue.

(of, not on)

Agree, very unecessary. Was a little shocked by it..

I was a bit upset by it, upset is the wrong word really, more a resigned sigh - it would just have been nice for once to have a character continuing breast feeding after two weeks, especially as she had been trying to bf before; I kept thinking if I'd slept with my sisters boyfriend and got pregnant that magic one time event despite main-lining vodka most nights, then married the local physco and pretended it was his baby until he found out, kidnapped her and then tried to kill us both....I would probably be desperate to breast feed her when she got back and wouldn't hand her to other people for months due to the shock of being separated from my baby.....but then I wouldn't have gotten into that mess to begin with! NB No one needs to have the right change in the pub as Peggy Mitchel is always giving away drinks on the house - and why is it that no one who lives on the square has the capacity to get a job anywhere else??

see i was a bit less shocked by this bf'ing bit than I was that she let Peggy and Archie have Amy when she got back from the car/lake incident (so that she could have a rest) - I wouldn't have let my pfb out of my sight for a second after her being kidnapped and then nearly drowned!
might just be me though..

Has she definitely switched to formula? I presumed she meant a bottle of expressed milk.

Dear God! It's a soap opera, not real life.

But it's on the telly so it must be real!

Might not be a productive comment but it does refelect statistics which show that breast feeding is predominently a middle class activity.

Eastenders isn;t there to educate us - but actually this might be a very clever strategy of planting a seed in someones head - people do want to better themselves and there will be some people who will breastfeed becasue they are aspritional middle class after hearing that.