Daily Mail publishes decent breastfeeding article shock

[Gidders]

Don't know if this has already been done, but this was published in the DM in response the the Mother and Baby editorial.

www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1290442/BEL-MOONEY-How-sad-mothers-seen-sex- objects-breastfeed-child.html

A pretty good article I think, although not sure about the woman at the end banging on about how sexy her figure was while breastfeeding - kind of misses the point.

objects-breastfeed-child.html here

Ah, thank you. Rubbish with links

Me too it would appear

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surprisingly good article - in fact, I would have thought it was from a broadsheet rather than a tabloid!!

that's a fantastic article!

The ending to that article was probably the first thing I've read in the Daily Hate that has made me smile warmly.

Still waiting to be a size six, mind.

There's a nice one in the Telegraph too: www.telegraph.co.uk/health/women_shealth/7860205/Does-a-lover-really-have-first-claim-on-breasts.htm l

would have been nice if she'd clarified you can drink and bf

but otherwise, very nice

Aye, I read it this morning and thought it was good.

I was also pleasantly surprised that the comments at the bottom were supportive.

More of the same please, DM! Keep up the good work!

How annoying that SMA had an advert under the Telegraph advert for their website and advice about infant nutrition

Good DM article shockingly

Still slightly bizaare, but considering the DM's closed to society audience then it's a good step in the right direction. Would also have been nice if they said pregnancy makes for saggy boobs as well.

Self proclaimed feminist working for DM?

Fed up with all the BF media references being negative. It'd be good for more references to succesful stories as before I gave birth, I honestly thought that nearly everyone failed (did grow up on a council estate in my defence, where I know many a mother still try and wean at three months) and assumed that therefore I would fail within three weeks as well. Luckily I'm incredibly stubborn.

wow, rather positive!

but these articles continue the ideas that if you bf your breasts sag, you can't drink alcohol and the more you eat the more milk you make.

i still can't get over the use of the term 'fun bags' in the original article. LOL at bel mooney saying the mother and baby writer should work for zoo or nuts

Yes I saw that yesterday and thought it was very good.
She takes her premis too far at the end but her comments upon the demeaning of the trappings of motherhood is right I think

sorry - incoherent. Must be the shock

I was also at the original article. What a twat.

Jolly good show DM.

(faints at having typed the above)

I can't believe the m&b woman made out breastfeeding is unsexy, and then went on to call her breasts fun bags - seriously, the least sexy term I have ever heard. Repulsive.

I already read this and was shocked in a positive way! Bel Mooney makes some good points. And spot on about the Nuts/Zoo vocabulary. I felt the language of the M&B article was very badly chosen - Basshunter on the Wright Stuff (!) said that the word 'creepy' was a major mistake and I agree.

It's a strange world in which M&B publish an anti-bf article with such an objectionable tone, and the DM publishes a pro-bf one with a vaguely decent feminist argument!

Some good points - not sure about the following article saying bfing was fantastic because it gave you big boobs.
I quite liked this in the Guardian www.guardian.co.uk/lifeandstyle/2010/jun/29/welcome-to-parenthood-zoe-williams

Loving the Torygraph article.

am i a bit early? where is the bunfight?

Very good Guardian article, good to read some responsible and no-nonsense stuff about mothers and babies.

Tired of these hysterical media wars and ridiculous pro-formula arguments from women not knowing what they're talking about...

This kind of debate would never happen in Scandinavia, where their society is lot healthier than the UK, and BF rates much higher, among other things...(oh, and women thinner too, for that matter).

I like Rowan Pelling's point about support and the difference this can make.

Int he guardian one though she's somewhat inaccurate abbout medication and BF.