Can anyone seriously find this "highly offensive"?

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I am struggling to see what the problem is! Here.

Wonderful, then arseholes up and down the country can come out in sympathy. Somebody might shout 'it's a nanny state'. You may even elicit an 'I pay my taxes' from an arsehole in Rochdale. And then back to whining about MP expenses.

lol..... AW THE DM, is that our version of the national enquirer? (they both are full of shite)

I was this close to buying stickers for my wheelie bin - they had a picture of gnomes fishing by a lake on them, which for some reason rather appealed to me. DS (12, and just so embarrassed by everything I do at the moment) vetoed the purchase. I was quite upset....they were nice.

Gnomes? Oh God, go back. Buy them. It sounds fantastic. And twee. And faintly ridiculous. There is no good reason not to. I have wheelie bin sticker envy. Our garden centre sells limp geraniums and compost bins.

I'd do some research first though it may be the new pampas grass...

drlove8, I've seen the National Enquirer at the local newsagent's. Usually has some famous person on the front accompanied by a ludicrous and fabricated shock headline. You know, Angelina Pregnant With Octuplets Has Darth Maul Mask Tattooed on Face and Insists Brad Dress as a Hobbit For Sexual Encounters.

disclaimer: the above may or may not be true, I know nothing of Brad and Ange, they may or may not have those fetishes detailed, who am I a tax paying, law abiding citizen to judge?

I always had her down as a hobbit-boffer.

I think I shall buy them....if only to incite fury and much eye-rolling in my DS. It's nothing more than he deserves at the moment.

that is so sad...why would anyone be offended by a poster showing toddler bf'ing her doll.....I mean why?

Should we maybe also than be outraged by Toddlers feeding their Doll's with bottles? Or is that acceptable....

Utterly Stupid!!!!!!!!!!!!

wtf? my dd breastfed her dolly. where's the controversy?

So...if your dd sees you bf and (quite logically) copies with her toys, you're supposed to correct her, tell her that she shouldn't and hand her a bottle instead (even if she's never seen you bottlefeed) ?!

Blimey, now I know that I'm one of handful of sane people in a world of weirdness !

The posters could have been made a lot more attractive, mind you.

hehe, made me wonder what people would have thought about my ms, when he bf'ed his dolls and teddies.....they would have been pure outraged, I say

A friend of mine commented after the birth of her dd2 that there were almost no 'new baby' books for toddlers that showed babies being bf rather than bottle-fed (Usborne's 'A New Baby' does by the way). I bf and bottle-fed ds so I'm fairly middle-of-the-road about bf'ing and I was a bit surprised that there weren't more.

Obviously too controversial for publication!

just shows what a long way this country has to go to encourage breastfeeding as the norm...

My son used to pull his t-shirt up, put his doll to the breast and go "ouch!" and have this pained expression on his face and then after a while go "it's alright" with a kind of soldiering-on expression - it was hilarious. NOT the best advert for breastfeeding but showed me that he was paying attention to EVERY little thing I was doing in relation to this new baby

That poster was obviously put together by some well-meaning soul but Christ it isn't in any way, shape or form, eye-catching. The fact that she is supposed to be breastfeeding her dolly is barely discernable. Ridiculous reaction though.

Can someone quickly brief me on the article? For some reason my computer wont open some links today.
Thanks.

A breastfeeding poster shows a toddler breastfeeding her dolly. Cue shrieks of fury, as apparently this is inappropriate, and an example of militant pro-breastfeeding.

Now I come to think of it, I remember pretending I had breasts when I was about 6, and my mother telling me off as though I had done something shameful and dirty. Same attitude, maybe?

I think it looks more like a missing child poster, the child looks uncomfortabale and the whole design of the poster is crap, could be done so much better but still showing a child pretending to breastfeed though.

Skramble, it's not a professional photo. It was one entered into a competition that was being run at the hospital.

Must admit that the child looks a bit surprised though.
Mine were much more absorbed in what they were doing when bfing their teddies and dolls.

Ah I see I didn't know it was a comp and was just a local thing. Still could have been set out to make it less like a missing poster though.