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!)

, I must have spent a good hour looking at all the different ones the other night. I even showed dp who muttered something about terry nappies under his breath

Even made a mental list of my faves, going on appearnaces of course.

So see, I do indeed have no life

Some of us have jobs, school runs, house to keep, dancing and swimming lessons (oh and riding and piano) and managed washables and to cook food from scratch every day and to breastfeed.

I'm surprised that someone who has changed her name to have a whinge (some of it pretty judgemental) about other mumsnetters is getting so much sympathy.

Well quite Enid.

But of course, I'm looking down my nose at you right now, because you haven't mentioned making your own jam.

However, otoh I'm feeling pretty judged, because I haven't managed to fit in riding and dancing lessons.

Caligula

oh Enid, you are making me feel terrible

I do sometimes feed the kids junk although I manage the bfing, washing nappies, working blah blah blah

I am so fed up with being made to feel like this

it's all your fault and i think you should apologise and grovel

Enid, I want to be like you.
Actually, come to think of it, I am like you!

damn

can't believe I left out the jam

oh hold on I grow my own veg too. AND we walk to dd1's school.

I am a bit taken aback by some of the posts on here, particularly:

"I too am sick of the hippy PC attitudes that have been invading this site"

Whatever happened to live and let live? If we lentil knitters aren't criticising you (which I certainly haven't cause I truly don't give a f* how many biscuits your child eats), why keep taking the rip out of us? There have been loads and loads and loads of threads recently having a go (albeit jovially sometimes) at organic, recycling, breastfeeding types. We have the right to make our choices without getting criticised all the time too!

thank you a million times over Guru Enid

I can but hope that some day we too will be fish finger free

(but I draw the line at the homemade jam, don't you have a life woman?)

do you write your children's bed time stories on hand made paper though Enid?

well said Franky

FrannyK even

Never understod what was so challenging about whipping yer norks out,throwing a few nappies into a washing machine and slicing and frying the odd onion anyway.
I'm obviously far cleverer than I thought.

Excellent

Take this joshing going on here, for instance, with Enid. It is funny, but it seems to be on loads of threads, all the time. How funny would it be if I started asking formula feeders if they were bashing their kids around or shooting up - it's just another extreme stereotype, but it wouldn't be funny, it would be offensive, wouldn't it? Why are lefty hippy types fair game?

(apologies if I have lost my sense of humour but the piss taking seems relentless sometimes)

think fedup has actually left now, possibly to start googling for nappies (having been so deftly put right about the possibility of having a life (if you call sitting in front on MN that) while also running the machine a few times a week).

Now, anyone HANDWASH their nappies?

[that'll sort the wheat from the chaff, eh girls?]

I think the mud gets slung over both sides of this supposed fence at times - sarcastic asides here and there.

I didn't clock that the original poster had namechanged - have courage and complain loudly with your usual name !

I doubt there are many mumsnetters beating or starving their children, so we're all doing a damn fine job.

frannyK (and I risk getting lynched for this) - the bottlefeeding, disposable toting, junk food munching (oh yeah, that's me, ooops) brigade obviously just don't have a sense of humour. Hadn't you realised? that's why they need handling with [organic if poss] kid gloves...

Er...mp guilty I'm afraid.
Had a f/t job (nay Challenging Career) at the time and was all alone with dd as dh away.
How PC does that make me eh????

i used to motherpec (handwash nappies)
not through choice mind you
but coz i couldnt afford a washing machine in the black and white days

Puff is right of course.

Motherpeculiar, I beat my nappies with stones before hanging them out in a mountain spring.

(aargh, I'm taking the mickey of myself, now)

lol at b/w days!

puff, of course you are right

[slinks off to stop being so childish and to wish last message could be retracted]

Kid gloves? I couldn't possibly use animal products, motherp!