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Does this make Gwyneth a hypocrite?

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emkana · 14/05/2006 20:21

All vegan and hippy-dippy on the one hand,
but on the other hand employing a maternity nurse who advocates leaving a less than six-week-old baby to cry for 20 minutes...

\link{http://observer.guardian.co.uk/uk_news/story/0,,1774405,00.html\hmmm}

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shellybelly · 14/05/2006 21:03

Frizbe I thought it sounded very familiar, the going in and patting the tummy and the swaddling

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emkana · 14/05/2006 21:08

And to see a correlation (sp?) between feeding on demand and behaviour in school later...

give me a break.

Dd1 was fed on demand and co-slept and all that and she's the sweetest, most well-behaved little girl ever. Her teacher said to us she wanted to have a daughter like her one day! [proud emoticon]
So there.

(dd2 however is a little devil, but I doubt that's anything to do with demand-feeding...)

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alex8 · 14/05/2006 21:09

Well I suppose it goes with her husband and his supposed eco friendliness then he drives some huge 4x4 bmw,

I really do hate most celeb mums. I caught a bit of Amanda Holden on this morning talking about going to film in Africa with her baby. She was taking a full time nanny, her husband, her mother and mother in law. And the interview just kept focusing on how slim she was. aaagh

alex8 · 14/05/2006 21:12

I just read the actual link. She said she couldn't breast feed her children. Perhaps because she followed her own advice. and this " If you make them the kingpin, you'll be storing up trouble for yourself.". Its just so annoying,

nooka · 14/05/2006 21:17

Sounds fairly sensible to me, similar to our approach with ds, which worked really well for us (failed completely for dd though!) it does sound similar to the baby whisperer. Interesting that it's a sixties style - I basically did it like my mother did (except for my mother's obsession with leaving the baby in the garden!) and she was a sixties mum.

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emkana · 14/05/2006 21:18

nooka - did you leave your baby to cry at less than six weeks old?

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nooka · 14/05/2006 21:19

The breast/bottle thing was a bit strange, but I know that some people who need to be able to leave their babies can find it very difficult to get them to take the bottle, so as long as you are able to express I guess it's OK (sounds like a huge pfaff though!)

VeniVidiVickiQV · 14/05/2006 21:20

It said she couldnt b/feed two of her children. I think she had more than two.

Also it didnt say giving a bottle of formula, so she could be meaning EBM perhaps?

I still dont like leaving a baby to cry after having done this with DS on occasion at the advice of an "expert".

I would be interested to see her at work....or read this book when it comes out.....

kiskidee · 14/05/2006 21:21

don't forget to mention slingwearing, expat.:)

WideWebWitch · 14/05/2006 21:25

I know, I know, I read this and I think it may well make Gwyneth and Martin er, well, I was surprised I suppose

WideWebWitch · 14/05/2006 21:28

Has Chris Martin REALLY got a 4x4? Gosh.

arfy · 14/05/2006 21:30

Chris Martin has INDEED got a whacking great 4x4

pah flipping hypocrites

HappyMumof2 · 14/05/2006 21:30

my brother met him yesterday at work - quite funny as at that exact moment Coldplay were on the radio and my brother said to him 'Oh there's your song on the radio' cringe Blush

threebob · 14/05/2006 21:31

What I don't get is why would you would pay a lot of money to someone to ignore your baby when it cries. Surely you could do that yourself for free.

Far more likely to be messed up by having celebrity parents than by a bit of rocking and singing IMO.

What the point in eating all that macrobiotic stuff when pg and doing all that yoga and then allowing your child's brain to flood with cortisol, when they are too young to "learn" anyway?

alex8 · 14/05/2006 21:33

It was in the Guardian.

"The X5 and why, Chris? Why?
To north London, where the festive disillusionment is only compounded by news of Chris Martin's car prang. On Monday morning, the Coldplay lead singer left a dent in the back of a local woman's car, and photographs of the incident's aftermath were lovingly reproduced in the Sun.

Frankly, I'm very disappointed with Chris. In fact, not since Toto yanked back the curtain in the Emerald City to reveal that the great and powerful Oz was essentially an old guy with a hotwired church organ has anyone felt so conned.

Put briefly: Chris Martin drives a BMW X5. Or rather Chris Martin, bleeding heart environmentalist, drives a BMW X5.

For those of you who don't get off to Top Gear, the X5 is an SUV. It is huge, and common to such places as the car parks of Premiership training grounds.

It's traditionally less popular among the climate change lobby.

Earlier this year, Chris gave an interview to this newspaper in which he explained the the band's new record featured "an intense, angry track encouraging people to make the right decisions about how they live their lives and how they treat the planet".

Mm. Why do I keep forgetting to buy that album? And has he had his X5 specially converted to run on ballads and mung beans?

Inquiring minds want to know."

alex8 · 14/05/2006 21:35

If the maternity nurse is ignoring your baby crying in the middle of the night do you wake up anyway? Seems a waste of money. Or maybe they have heavy duty ear plugs

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emkana · 14/05/2006 21:36

threebob, your post is spot on IMO.

Presumably if your house is big enough you can have your bedroom far away enough from "nursery" to be bothered by baby's irritating cries at night. Shock

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HappyMumof2 · 14/05/2006 21:37

they probably have a mansion and are ten floors away or something so wouldn't hear anything.......

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emkana · 14/05/2006 21:37

not to be bothered

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emkana · 14/05/2006 21:37

snap HMof2 Grin

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arfy · 14/05/2006 21:37

frankly the pair of them are full of shit

I'm fed up with slebs telling us all what to do re babies, solving world poverty, getting your figure back, how to give birth etc. and then doing what they like and paying people to sort their lives out.

I laughed myself silly when I saw pictures of Chris Martin in a gas-guzzling X5

I agree threebob (by the way I was georginars once upon a time, hope you and Bob are well) why do all the yoga and mactobiotic stuff and then do this? Also, if the quote I've heard is true (and I fully accept it might not be!) of 'I'd rather die than feed my daughter a cup a soup' then they really are crazy mixed up kids

pah

expatinscotland · 14/05/2006 21:38

guilty as charged, kis-dee. Blush

DD1 hated the sling. DD2, however, loves it! She cries w/boredom if she's left in her buggy too long. She prefers riding in her Wilkinet.

shellybelly · 14/05/2006 21:39

was just about to post when dd started crying, obviously i raced up the stairs to see to her, bless she was still asleep and crying for mamamama, was so nice to hear to saying mamama coz its usually dadadada my heart swelled, wonder if gywneth get thats?

alex8 · 14/05/2006 21:39

I remember a frend of my aunts talking about how she had very bad post natal depression in the sixties with her second baby. She only did 4 hourly feeds as recommended and the baby cried all day long till about 11 months. I didn't like to say maybe he was hungry.

WideWebWitch · 14/05/2006 21:40

Thanks for that re the SUV, gosh.

lol at "What I don't get is why would you would pay a lot of money to someone to ignore your baby when it cries. Surely you could do that yourself for free." ha ha! Grin

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