Wanna guess how the Prime Minister's baby is being fed?

[foxytocin]

Go on, have a guess then open the link.

here

Monkeyfacegrace - Nothing funny about that. Fascinating actually. Your choice of reading matter was worth a snigger though.

Bitchy and unnecessary of me but sometimes you can't help responding in kind.

so, if i understood that link right, your placenta was of a kind that might have bled out if you'd had ARM or a membrane sweep?

There's no way I'm looking.

A placenta? on your profile.

is that sort of thing allowed?

Why would anyone want to see a placenta? I never saw my own-I can't see the point-unless you are interested in medical things. I am resisting the temptation to find out what they look like after all these years.

Not just any placenta ... this is a special placenta.

I wouldn't have minded seeing the placenta but with DD2 I was passing out, and with DD1 the support team were extraordinarily efficient with the tea and toast and I only had eyes for brew.

I think that is right EdgarAllanPink, for the babies, I am not so sure about the mothers. Makes me wonder if this risk of ARM is ever discussed with mothers when they are offered it. I had 3 scans, one was late and VCI wasn't diagnosed. Most people who have it diagnosed opt for a C/S.

I wasn't disparaging anyone for being nosy, just disparaging the cheap insinuations people made about a placenta on my profile. Anyone can have a look. Placentas smell like liver . I love liver but I didn't cook up my placenta for afters.

I think I read somewhere that 90% of full term babies bleed to death if the vessels are ruptured. All post labour reseach btw.

Hi Foxy,
What are you intending to do /did you do with the placenta.

D'you know I don't recall mine coming out or anything about it. I've sat here for a few minutes and I realized there was never any discussion about it before or afterwards.

Foxy re the placenta I didn't want to ridicule it being on profile but I'm certainly nosey interested in stuff like that. Thanks for the link, I see why it is interesting now. How scary about the possibility of rupture and it does make you think about ARM!

My midwife gave me a guided tour of my placenta after delivering dd1

With dd2 my placenta was sent to the lab for analysis ...... Does that make mine REALLY special lol. Don't worry, I won't share piccies!

here is my 2p's worth:

pic of Dave definitely and totally a PR driven photo and therefore highly political.

think it's great that PM can be photographed feeding his baby: wouldn't have happened even 15 years ago...although depressing that something that should be taken for granted can be turned into a statement about what a hands on dad he is.

would be fantastic if samcam WOULD be photo'd breastfeeding, or even have a shoot (testino?) with arty shots of her breastfeeding.

think more should be done to make it absolutely fine, and in fact a desirable thing to 'get your baps out' for breastfeeding.

don't think it's really that relevant what's in the bottle, although if it is EBM it would be a positive thing to say so.

I not only kept my placentas in the freezer, ds1's is under a beautiful tree in garden and ds2's is awaiting another beautiful tree.

placentas are fascinating and amazing things.

i don't wear lentils, although i have been known to be slightly weavery.

I wish I had been given the option of taking my placentas home. I saw them all, took a really good look at one because DD had managed to tie a knot in her cord and the doctor spent a lot of time marveling at it. Tis all 'products of conception after all. Mind you I wanted my gallstones too but I was too knocked out to ask for them when I could have.

placentophagy is quackery of highest order.eating bodily detritus has no nutritional value.other than some i am woman hear me roar types cant imagine who would

all my placentas failed me.so hope the path lab sliced em good

sam cam isnt a bf role model she doesnt need to promote bf.she doesnt need photos arty or other of how she may or not feed

Methinks that people should mind their own business and campaign for deprived/neglected children.

Fact 1: Not everyone can BF as easily as others.

Fact 2: Some of the 'perfect' Bfeeders on here perhaps would be better off mothering their kids than posting on here constantly.

Get a grip. This is the sort of thread that makes me avoid MN for months on end.

some conspiracy theorists and formulaphobes love a good ole rumble and moan

Poor Samantha Cameron-leave her in peace! If I was the PM's wife there is no way that I would be photographed breast feeding-arty or not! It isn't her job to promote bfing and I am sure that such a blatant piece of PR work would put me off completely.
All this fuss about a bottle is making PR out to be far to important-rather than irrelevant. Women are intelligent enough to work out motivations behind pictures and move on-they don't need worthy people pointing out the obvious about something unimportant.
If I was the PM's wife and advisors (of any sort)were wanting arty pictures of me breast feeding I would tell them where to go -and it wouldn't be polite!

Brettgirl - when I'm posting on here it's usually because I'm breastfeeding!

Like Violethill I got a guided tour of my placenta after having DS. I asked for it - why, after a 3.5 hour pushing stage I'll never understand. I think I thought I might regret it forever if I didn't, or something. Anyhow I'm sure it was very interesting but I don't remember a word of what she said. After DD I couldn't care two hoots.

You know, my gut reaction intitially was "Oh get real, these photos have just been taken and published by some press relations person who knows nothing about the politics of infant feeding and thought this was a nice fluffy positive image without thinking any deeper than that".

Then I remembered that one of their party political youtube broadcast things pre-election had a bottlefeeding image in it that caused an outcry amongst bf campaigners, some of whom contacted the Conservative party to voice concerns. They may have been written-off as a bunch of loons of course, but having remembered this I'm now feeling slightly more cynical that whoever placed these photos was unaware of the controversy it might cause amongst some. Of course, even if they were aware they might not care.

I still maintain that any public criticism of this image will come across as criticism of how the Camerons are feeding their baby, which would be a TOTALLY inappropriate thing for anyone to do. Parents, including those in the public eye, may decide themselves using whatever criteria they like how they feed their children. None of us truely knows what goes on in anyone else's feeding decisions or what experience they might be having.

True, but all the same if you're going to use your baby as a prop, you're going to attract flak. If you want to avoid putting your foot in it, keep your baby's life private. Some parents in the public eye are not keen on having photographers capturing those warm and fuzzy moments, and I applaud them.

I think the wrong decision was the one to use the baby for political purposes in the first place, whether she was photographed being fed or changed or just held by her mother or father. Trying to make political capital out of a baby stinks, imo.

(And maybe it's just an unfortunate facial expression, but am I the only one who thought SC was shrieking at the baby in that second photo?)

bet some of you think elvis lives in bathgate,and that wee silver aliens land in arizona.they way you misconstrue and twist a schmaltzy posed picture