Has anyone looked at Media Requests recently?

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just thought i would help

It has been deleted.

SMA offering £200 for mothers with babies under 3 months old to appear on videos on the SMA website demonstrating breastfeeding and latching etc with an 'expert' on hand.

Have to post and run - I'm at work.

Good, I am glad it has gone. .

ok forgive me but surely getting help is help?

the best advice offered to me was from cow and gate - oh the irony but I read the extensive pages of BF help and it was a help!
did it matter who was helping?

I have exclusively BF for almost a year
combi fed DD

as a mum I have a right to know every choice
breast IS better but the time can come where someone may need formula.

Sarah, no one argues that you have the right to know every choice - by which I suppose you mean 'full information about every choice'? No one argues that at times babies need formula.

You will not get the full information you need from a formula manufacturers' website.

It's highly likely the information on the website is fine as far as it goes, of course.

But under the World Health Organisation's code of marketing, educational materials on infant feeding from formula manufacturers is not permitted.

It needs to be unbiased and have no hidden agenda. Formula manufacturers like to tell you how crucial it is to eat a good diet (avoiding a long list of food that will upset your baby), not drink alcohol or coffee...the more limitations they can place on it the more likely you are to think sod this!
Plus, tiktok mentioned a while ago that certain formula brands like to emphasise the benefits of breastfeeding to appeal to the people who start breastfeeding but then change to formula at some stage. In a way saying they are "the formula for breastfeeders"

You're kidding, right? You think a company that makes money out of women not breastfeeding is likely to be a reliable source of unbiased information about breastfeeding ?

Cow and Gate stink.

I've seen leaflets of theirs advising bf mothers to give their babies water. Recent leaflets.

Same leaflet also implied that constipation is normal for all babies and that bf mothers should avoid eating chocolate and spicy foods as 'what ever you eat your baby gets first'.....

Honestly. It's like asking Cadbury's to give you advice on losing weight.

Actually, I do know someone who got a peer-reviewed paper published in a very pretigious journal on the health benefits of chocolate biscuits...

i meant "prestigious"

Grendle was that to me? No I don't think it would be unbiased, my post was in response to "surely help is help and it doesn't matter where it comes from"

SPB -no! Sorry, I was replying to SparklingSarah

ah
It's early...sorry!

Did you know that I shouldn't have been able to healthily breastfeed without first consulting the Aptamil website? This is according to an Aptamil leaflet that dropped out of a parcel for an online purchase - for something non-feeding related but from a baby product website.