BFing "inconvenient for the mother, time-consuming, bad for breast shape, at odds with a night's sleep and never done by fathers"

[Ewe]

Evening Standard article.

I mixed fed my DD and as such am rarely bothered by bf/ff debates as I don't tend to fall on either side of fence but this comment article really irritate me!

Does any of this - from 2007 - seem familiar at all? Talk about lazy journalism!

Jeez. There's that same comment about savagely latching on again. And formula is less embarassing? As I said, ishoooos.

Along, of course, with embarssingly little grasp of the real issues surrounding the advertising of formula.

How about this, Jordan.

I bf four children.
I too have great tits.
I have a devoted bloke, but you don't.
Go figure.

Ribena it was that and the reference to breast shape () that made me check the journalist's name.

And she says she's not bothered about recycling

Hee hee hee.

I am slightly disturbed by the extent to which she connects milk and cows too. The "I didn't want to be a cow" comment comes up in both articles, slightly altered. I mean, goats, sheep, people, there's lots of milk out there Melanie. It's a mammal thing.

Thinking about it, dairy cows don't get to feed their young. What she actually felt like was a free-range cow at a smallholding, but I guess that didn't have the same ring to it as Dairy Crest.

As an aside, a friend expressed for weeks for a very premature baby in one of those double breast banks of pumps in a hospital. Now she had reason to tell me she felt like a cow. I laughed that time.

In the WHO report on infant nutrition it even suggests camel milk as a possible option.

It reminded me of Red Dwarf - "the dog's milk is always the last to go".

(perhaps you had to be there)

Lol@"It's a mammal thing." There is a clue there, isn't there?

I forgot to mention my spluttering indignation at her naivety re advertising. Gosh no, no one's ever influenced by ads, are they? They're just there to give you a moment to make a cup of tea. [stupidbloodywoman smiley]

Boffin whenever people mention the ick factor of human milk, I like to point out that drinking cow's milk is purely social conditioning by asking whether they'd like pig or dog milk in their tea

Dita, thanks for posting the 2007 Jordan-response piece. What rubbish. Jordan is not now, was not then and never will be a feminist icon. Let's be clear. This writer obviously just wanted to get back to work early (her admission) and spend the time writing about how awful bf is, rather than doing it.

I bottle feed, never managed to establish BFing with DD.

It is really inconveniant! washing bottles, sterilizing, having to keep bottles cool when out.

Breast feeding is way less hassle!

I think it is clear that she peobably had a hard time establishing Breastfeeding and probably got a few unhelpful comments. I could be wrong but I thought I got a hurt vibe beneath the anger.

I think she just sounds like a bitch or at the very least has run out of the milk of human kindness (along with breastmilk)

Glad she's not my Mum, with her 'it's good enough" choices.

She just sounds so bitter. I pity her.

Oh ignore her, she's a nasty old fucker with an columni n the Torygraph (Christ knows why, she talks unadulterated shit) who has banged on about this in the past.
Glaringly obvious she has some serious issues about it not working out for her. She needs some therapy or summat. Spewing her poison out to the unsuspecting public will not help her.

Feel sorry for her-the poison in her is so palpable.

Why is it that opinionated and nasty old fuckers dominated the media and there is so little kind and thoughtful help for parents these days?

I think this woman has been off on this one before - she did an article on how great it was that she didn't feed her DD in the Times a couple of years ago. Its a shame it bothers her so much.

And that will teach me to read the whole thread before posting!

Glad she can get paid twice for the same bit of work. Wish I could.

The difference is that Jordan has enough money to throw the bottles and teats away afterwards. Most of us could not afford that extravagance.

i think having a baby is bad for sleep, breast shape, inconvenient and likely to put me on benefits too

and the father can do some stuff...doesn't mean he will though!

What a shame it's just a head shot of Melanie, so we can't judge her breast shape. It's clearly an important issue and IU feel we should know more.

Mind you, she can;'t see mine either, but after feeding DD for 18 months (combining that with full-time work from the time she was six months so sod the 'time consuming' bit), mine are actually in fab shape, thanks Mel!

Is her next article going to reveal the astonishing truth that pregnancy can give you stretch marks and is never done by fathers?

She forgot to mention another salient point, highlighted by Rod Liddle in today's Times:

all those bf-ing mothers sitting in front of the TV all day are depriving their DCs of vitamin D from sunlight...thereby contributing to the current reappearance of rickets.

!

To prevent your child having rickets all you need to do is get out for half an hour a day and take in morw calcium. He is so wrong.

Oh
Dear
God.

I don't know where to start. I really don't.

Ahhh, Rod Liddle - the thinking woman's Richard Littlejohn ...

Sounds like we'd better all go and feed in the park. Women displaying themselves (thanks GMTV) in public or rickets - no easy choices in parenting, are there?

Rod Liddle - what a gonad!