Webchat with Daisy Goodwin, lunchtime, Tues 23 June

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As requested and promised, Daisy has accepted our invite and is coming on next Tuesday (exact time to be confirmed, but probably around 1pm). Get there early to bag your place.

I would like to ask if Daisy appreciates concerns about using someone else's tragedy to make a general point in a column - I'm thinking about the poor woman who died after falling from a building in New York (inquest left it open - it might or might not have been suicide). Daisy read that this mother had the day previously called in the services of a lactation consultant. On that basis Daisy made assumptions that this mother had been under so much pressure to breastfeed she killed herself, and from that, castigated people like me (breastfeeding counsellors) for making women feel terrible if they were struggling to breastfeed.

I wonder if she knows how breastfeeding counsellors work?

Hi, Daisy's just logging in and will be here shortly.

I would like to ask Daisy why she included the Truby King method of parenting in her programme, as this style of parenting and that of Claire Verity was virtually unheard of until her programme was aired ?
Also the reputation of Claire Verity and probably her career was destroyed by the programme, does she take any responsibilty for this ?

Daisy - does it take a village to raise a child?

On the Channel 4 website forums during the time the programme was being aired, one of the parents who participated in the programme posted a message saying that she received no emotional support from the programme makers. Her message was deleted, can you confirm whether the parents on the programme received proper counselling, and is it true that they all had to sign an agreement that they would not discuss the programme with the media ?

thanks, phono, have changed

Hello Daisy. If things get quiet, I'll ask a nice easy poetry question for you. But I suspect you may be busy for a while...

Hoochie - plenty of Qs to keep her busy without me adding another one

how long does it take her to log on?

Come on admit - she's hiding in a cupboard isn't she?

funny - ooh, yes, what rhymes with 'orange'???

would anybody like a cup of tea?

just reboot it daisy

Milk, no sugar, MP.

Ah, yes the immortal orange question. That's waht we're all here for...

She's done a Goldsmith hasn't she?

We're hoping Daisy will be on any minute - struggling to raise her on the phone at the moment but we have spoken to her this morning and she's definitely coming!

OK....thanks, Justine

She's definately done a bunk I think Justine!