Baby girl dies after breastfeed

[SherlockLGJ]

Eh no, baby girl dies tragically in her mothers arms.

well I'm certainly going to complain about that headline - bl**dy ridiculous - like you say nothing to do with breastfeeding at all! If they wanted to say that it was after being fed - why not just say that - they didn't have to specify how!

"Baby girl dies after drinking formula"

"Baby girl dies after eating sausage roll"

Now what would you infer from those headlines? This one's just the same.

X posts hunker. It's pretty shit, isn't it?

Unbe-effing-lievable.

As if breastfeeding didn't have a hard enough time being accepted in this country.

I will be complaining too.

about the little girl and her parents

but this is appalling journalism. Despicable.

LIZS, I saw that in the paper too - personalised care plans for women to help them breastfeed, implementation costs to the tune of millions of pounds.

WHY not just train breastfeeding counsellors and employ them on the NHS?!

Fucking more bollocky paperwork and the HVs and midwives who don't take bfeeding support seriously now will still tick the boxes and pay lip service

What an annoying headline and what a misleading impression it gives. The word "after" implies a causative link. E.g. "man dies after fall" or "baby dies after eating peanut".

Hunker - have you complained. And did you include the bit in your post from "It's this kind of........"

If not, can I borrow it for my complaint? You put it much better my version.

better than my version

My first post on this thread is my complaint:

This story is wilfully misleading and appalling journalism.

WHY link breastfeeding with the tragic death of this baby girl?

It is yet more "breastfeeding bashing" - when will journalists bother to get facts straight?! It's this kind of emotive and ill-informed reporting that discourages women from breastfeeding and gives well-meaning friends, relatives and healthcare professionals yet more reason to (misguidedly) suggest to women who ARE breastfeeding that perhaps it's not best for their baby.

The poor child died of cotdeath not because she was fecking breastfed

I sent the following:

Heading the story below 'Baby girl dies after breastfeed' implies a causal link between breastfeeding and the baby's death where there is none. Sudden infant death can strike at any time and is sadly particularly common around two months of age.
Breastfeeding acceptance and support in the UK is pitiful, and stories such as this will do nothing to help new (particularly first-time) mothers feel confident in their choices to breastfeed.
In other words, this is potentially deeply damaging journalism.

do I have to get my ceiling scraper out again?

Twiglett - I concur (as usual).

The headline is a bit suspect I agree but if the headline stops you in your tracks so much that you read the article there's nothing in it to suggest it had anything to do with breastfeeding so what's your beef? ()

I've sent a complaint in.

Beef, wouldn't it bother you in the slightest if it said "baby girl dies after bottlefeed"?

I've had several people mention the dehydrated breastfed babies articles of the other week, despite seeing that DS2 is totally healthy, peachy and gorgeous, like I'm somehow stealth-dehydrating him

People LOVE to take ANY opportunity to go "ooh, breastfeeding, it's a bit...suspect...isn't it?" to women who breastfeed. And if they'll even say things to ME wtf are they saying to less confident about bfeeding women?

hunker - seriously, no, not at all, if she died after a bottle feed that's a fact - it's whether that had any bearing on the death that's the point. As I say, headline is a bit suspect but I wouldn't blow a gasket over it!

Beef, you and I will never agree on this sort of thing (btw - are you beef for good now? I preferred JT, I think).

beef, the headline's there on the England News page. Unless you've got time to go into the story and read the whole article, you'll be left with the impression that a baby girl died because she was breastfed. Which she didn't.

Oh, that's who you are/were, beef!

I'm with hunker on this.

what about "baby dies after breathing"?
or "girl dies after having her nappy changed"?

agree that this kind of "connection" is senseless & misleading

I'm also with Hunker on this one. When I saw the title I immediately thought "how on earth could breast feeding lead to an infants death?"!!! After reading the whole article I was fuming at how misleading and potentially damaging the title is.

As someone else said common titles are things like "man dies after being struck by lightning" ie the being struck by lightning was the cause of death, so this one reads as the cause of death was breastfeeding.

Message withdrawn

Who knows how many mums in 3-4 months time will think I don't want to breastfeed. I saw (ie vaguely remember the headline) something in the news a few months ago about a bf baby dying