I am fed up of being made to feel like a bad mother...

[fedupofgoody2shoes]

on MN. Most of the time I oove it but recently there have been far too many gasps and rolling eyes (well if we could see each others eyes that is).

Yes - I breastfed and will do again
I use disposable nappies
I used a mixture of homemade food and jars when weaning
I have a freezer with readymeals in it as well as home made meals
My kids have crisps and biscuits

I will never use washable nappies (I have a life)
I will never breastfeed and my bottle fed kids are healthier than some kids I know who were breastfed until they were 2.5. My kids have no allergies at all and that includes ezcema, asthma etc.

Please - give us mums who choose alternative ways a break and stop all this goody 2 shoes attitude with people. there is no need to look down your noses. Not everyone has time to spend washing nappies and cooking all day. Some of us have full time jobs, school runs, house to keep, dancing and swimming lessons, and some people don't take to breastfeeding. If powder milk was so bad they wouldn't sell it!

Please stop making people feel so judged (not all of MN is like this but there are a select few!)

Take no notice, they're probably really ugly.

we have tv's in all bedrooms

Um, yes, fine, agreed, but don't you think that implying that those who use washable nappies don't have a life is a bit judgemental too?

i also breatsfeed cos its free. hmm washable nappies and breastfeeding, that makes me tight doesnt it

oh and dd3 who is 8months old was munching o na chip earlier. oops lol.

Is the first statement meant to say 'Yes - I BOTTLEFED and will do again' cos otherwise it just doesn't make any sense. And while you go about chastising others who you feel have offended you by judging your choices it might be an idea not to offend other people's choices at the same time.

Hmm yes, I feel pretty judged now - I haven't got a life because I use washable nappies?

Oh well, I'll probably get over it.

I am a bad mother and I have no life... Phew! I feel so much better now that this is out of the way!

Just let it wash over you.
Noone can make you feel a certain way but you.

spidermama you sound like a shampoo commercial

Doormat it's because I'm worth it.

rofl spidermama

My thoughts exactly, spidermama. Nobody can make anyone feel anything. Only you can.

I can see what you mean fedupofgoody2shoes, but I really couldn't give a s**t about what other people think luckily!

so what bit do you feel guilty about?

The ready meals or the bottlefeeding?

I can see what you mean too, fedup. Im a bit hurt to learn that Ive got no life, but fortunately Im consoled by a vast smugness about my choices being the best ones, so it wont bother me too much!

me too Nightynight

no life eh? I guess that's coz I am too busy working, commuting, looking after the house, feeding the kids and ourselves (sometimes homemade, sometimes junk), staying in, going out, all along with washing the nappies - amazing, innit

FedUp, if you don't want to do it, don't. I do. OK?

nightynight.

I have a life. I don't find that throwing some nappies in a washing machine every other day impinges on it at all. I work 4 days a week, by the way. I do think its cowardly to change your name in order to diss someone else's choices.

Not having a life is looking at reusable nappies online and not actually having a baby to wear them

nutcackle

that's how we all started

[goes off cackling]

pmsl nutty. with dd1 i bought terries and plastic pants, they leaked each time with her, so they got donated to charity (i never knew about ebay then) and went on to use disposables. i sused dispoables with dd2 till she was ust under a year old, and she outgrew the ones available (extra large were not available much then) so i called team lollipop who let me trial some tots bots size 3 and ME XL wraps, and i never looked back. but there isnt much choice for larger nappies i;ve found, so with dd3 i did go overboard, but good old tots bots and ME wraps always win.

ok, i have no life, i could chat about nappies for hours.