Poster of toddler 'breastfeeding' her doll is apparently 'distasteful, inappropriate and crude'

[ChairmumMiaow]

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WTF?

Does anyone on here think that a picture of a toddler pretending to breastfeed her doll is anything other than cute?

The grandma, but I don't really, just wnated to say something that hadn't already been said
MirandaG, not sure what you mean about they should have got a better picture than her just shoving the doll up her top? That will be the extent of toddlers bfing surely? They aren't going to stress over latch or unhook their feeding bra

perfect x post!

Thanks for the link Tiktok, I'll have a look to see if the Welsh Assembly has similar data.

DS2 (4 yrs) was pretending to BF a toy tiger the other day.

Stealth - my dd sometimes pulls her top right up and yanks her nipple against the doll's mouth - looks very uncomfortable and I have several times had to tell her to bring the baby to the breast not the breast to the baby I am not sure a poster of that would do much to promote bf though!

It can be emotive, that's for sure, SPB, because some people react in an extraordinary angry way.

I mean - a toddler copying mummy is 'disgusting'? Who knows what issues are going on in the mind that thinks that, but breastfeeding support, and breastfeeding mothers' should not have to accommodate these issues.

Sorry - my last post was in reply to Miranda.

lol Kathy! I am going on my son's example, I quite often have to bf his giraffe but he's content with it being vaguely in the right area - in the same way as he's happy with a spoonful of weetabix being waved under the giraffe's nose!
It is worrying, as it makes you wonder what this HCP thinks about bf in general.

Bloody hell - 44% at 5-8 days check

Bearing in mind this is all-Wales data and will be skewed by the likes of me and the yummy mummies of Cardiff and the Vale, it's pitiful really.

50% initiation rate here.
I'd heard the average was 75%, didn't realise Donny was sooo low in comparison.

Ds aged 18 months held his teddy to one of my breasts while he fed from the other so teddy didn't miss out.

I live in the NE - we have 4 of the 6 worst areas. I actually live in Co Durham which, in my limited experience, has a health service which is supportive of bf, and yet it's still 10th worse! It does contain some very deprived areas
wme - are you in Redcar & Cleveland?

Thats so sad

My DD has pretended to express milk and BF her dollys, it makes me proud !

mine all bf'd their dollys (inc ds lol) - to allow a healthcare assistant (whether a councillor or not) to rant like this in the media is unprofessional at best.

tiktok - i'm not sure i actually believe any figures the nhs comes up with tbh. my own 6 week check notes for ds1 (dc2) note that i had tried to bf, but failed, and he was now ff. given that he was exclusively bf until 10 mos (and i mean exclusively as he was plastic phobic lol) i think they just make up their figures most of the time, in an 'oh, i forgot to ask' sort of way. they just assume that ff is the norm and so frequently it's the box that gets ticked. i certainly didn't bother to correct them (i didn't see the notes until he was 2 anyway lol, so it hardly seemed worth it) and it didn't occur to me that we were in some way violating stats... likewise, dd2 couldn't bf as she was tube fed, but i expressed for some time. i doubt she figures in the tables at all...
off to google the lovely jean a now...

madwoman, did you ask them about that?
DS had records made at 6-8 weeks I think and maybe once after, but I was never asked again. I always wonder what he's recorded as in the 6 month figures!

SPB - I'm in Doncaster. We're crap at everything else, so it stands to reason we're rubbish at breastfeeding too!

Ah right, I was puzzled by the 50% as they all seem to be round me, but I should have known what Donny was

Not sure that children copy their moms. DD 'feeds' her bears on her tummy

madwoman, I also wouldn't be reflected accurately in those stats, as ds2 didn't even get his first feed from me and it was a few weeks before I finally reestablished ebf.

I'm not a supporter of the political party in question (I googled to find out) but Cllr Ashworth seems a bit off message here.

The comments thread from the Manchester Evening News is quite disturbing, but it would take forever to report all the offensive comments as such.

has anyone a link to this picture. by the sounds of it sounds perfectly normal to me. what is wrong with a little child pretending to bf her doll. nobody would bat an eyelid if it was a bottle. the government want to promote bf, fat lot of good they are doing here making out that something so natural is so wrong.

you ca see the picture in the link on the OP, I agree, there's nothing wrong with it!

And people wonder why the hell more babies aren't BF!

Dawnxx

just seen it, why!! why do critcs see something so natural as dirty, I think that their minds are dirty and sick. Breasts are primarly for feeding babies. I think that the critics are making an issue out of nothing. I was not able to bf my baby but this poster has nothing to do with it. If my hv or midwife was making me feel bad about not being able to, and pressuring me, than i would feel bad, not this poster. They are the ones that suggested formula anyway, i was going to keep trying.