Radio DJ mocking 'freaky breastfeeding'

[katie789]

My sister was in the hairdressers today and heard on the radio (Radio 1, she thinks, about 5-6pm), a DJ playing sound of an electric breastpump and making a huge song, dance and joke about the fact women can be 'milked' like cows, and how disgusting/freaky that is.

The young teenage girls working in the hairdressers were falling about laughing, making 'sick' noises etc. My sister, and I (currently ebf my 9wk-old first baby - after v rocky start) thought this was pretty irresponsible of said DJ, basically encouraging the view that bf is freaky and something to be laughed at, to impressionable young girls.

I wondered if anyone else had heard it? Am I being oversensitive? But if it was radio 1, that DJ is being paid from public funds, and besides, should he be more aware?

i heard it and think your sister got the wrong end of the stick.

It was scott mills - his flatmate had bought a breastpump as a present for someone going on maternity leave. He then tried it himself and they were having a go supposedly in the studio.

If anything - it raised awareness of breastfeeding/pumping in my opinion but i was only half listening whilst preparing dinner.

I think the solution is to not listen to anything broadcast by the morons DJs who work for Radio 1

It's all duller than Dullsville IMO

I get more intriguing and socially diverse discussion from my 2yr old. Seriously!

The freaky bit was that men were trying to use a pump! Not that breastfeeding was freaky.

Ah, sounds like my sister did mishear - probably straining above the sound of hairdryers .
Yes, men using a pump would be quite freaky (I'm picturing Robert De Niro in Meet The Fockers now)

Still, shame the girls reacted in that way - though that's not an untypical reaction to bf round here, it seems.

I must say, I'm afraid if I'd heard this DJ myself I would probably have shouted 'hear, hear' ... and I'm doing breastfeeding.

Breastpumps are vile - and breastfeeding has to be the least glamorous and most unsexy thing I've ever done.

When I was giving birth I barred my DH from peeping down at the business end in case he never fancied me again. But on reflection expressing milk is a much worse look.

I've read all the breast is best booklets, looked at the research, understand the pros, and am doing it - but I will be very pleased when I can stop.

An early 20-something relative is just pregnant. I'm going to bequeath her my expensive Medela Swing pump - but I haven't told her this, I've told her mother instead, because I'd like my young pal to have a few more months of pre-Lapsarian ignorance of this dreadful machine.
(*pre-Lapsarian - before Eve bit the apple and lost her innocence)

Was it R1 DJ Chris Moyles who was saying this stuff BTW - sounds like the sort of thing he would say, he's an a*!

Here's New York Times journo Judith Warner - 'Ban the Breastpump'.

warner.blogs.nytimes.com/2009/04/02/why-i-dumped-the-pump/

No, it was Scott Mills. And as a frequent pumper myself, i found it amusing, sorry! I think everyone needs to lighten up a little really, it's this seriousness & lack of humour about breastfeeding i think alienates people..

I heard it too and was lol at them! I bf ds1 for 7 months and am bf ds2 who is 10 months. I hate pumps with a passion!

What made me laugh was the fact that other blokes rang/text in to admit that they had "had a go" with their dw's/dp's breast pumps!! My DH looked quite blank tonight when I asked him if he tried mine!!

Caspercat - I so agree with you. Maybe I will start a thread of breastpump jokes

It sounds interesting and I'd have quite liked to hear the programme - I found using a breastpump quite a weird experience when I thought about it. This time round I only did a very small amount of pumping though, as I realised it wasn't going to help me and I needed my energy to deal with establishing bfing directly.

You could probably find it on the R1 website

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I don't agree with that Judith Warner article though. I think there are problems with breastpumps - I think with my first baby expressing was sold to me as part of the answer to my problems feeding DS1. But I really hate using formula, and I'm so glad to have been able to give up top ups for a while this time round - ds2 will probably have to have a bit of formula from 9-12 months when I return to work.

I think he's obsessed. Didn't they drink some EBM on his show a while back? V strange man.