The things Gina Ford should put in her book ....

[diminishedresponsibility]

one is that when you become a parent you will need to develop asbestos hands really quickly!

The app has a loud klaxon which sounds when you are cuddling your baby for no good scientific reason.

It aims to stamp out all motherly instinct and pointless bodily contact within a maximum of 4 weeks.

No, because Gina Ford is NOT above free speech. There is no libel here.

She is NOT an Iraqi dictator (I hope)

I wouldn't be surprised.

Oh Lord dangerous territory

Do we need the asbestos hands for melting the statue?

When my friend bought her book I told her to burn it immediately and avoid a nervous breakdown. I am a good friend.

On second thoughts, I am off to restock the bunker.

Quint
I thought you were joking. Please tell me that you were?

God yes quint please tell me you are joking about that app.

The Gina F...SWMNBN fiasco was before my MN birth - what actually happened?

silverangel

and all midwives should, by extension of your theory, wear a badge stating whether they themselves have actually given birth.

It's like with any method of doing something that you read up on, you need to adapt the best bits of it into your routine, not slavishly try and adopt the whole of someone else's suggested routine. One size does not fit all.

Just use your brains.

I read her Contented Baby book, learned from it and took some of it on board and it certainly helped me understand my first baby better and made my life easier.

anyway, more to the point, I don't get the asbestos hands reference.

Asbestos mouth to bolt down hot meals/drinks before attending to crying infant, maybe.

How to keep the kittens off my kitchen counters? That would be quite useful advice. Presuming that SWWNBN has an answer for everything.

TwllBack look here.

Oooh the drama!

On a slight tangent, Justine is ace isn't she? ?We are very relieved that the issue is over, it was a commercial decision to settle because although we were told that we had a case, we could not afford to take it to court." She is like a RL version of Buffy

'strapping babies to a rocket and sending them to lebanon' whoever said that is genius!

I am not joking about that App.

oh no, Your in trouble now!!
MN heads will roll for this thread and you will all be in dention

Not forgetting she sends babyes to the moon straped to rockets

Im guessing some on this thread have no clue what all the "she who cannot be named" is all about. So here and here hope you are all enlightened

Quint - that is terrible. I thought you were being very witty and had constructed an elabroate joke.

WHY would something like that exist.

Totally agree that that book is purely for nanny's to get their charges to sleep in order to be convenient, NOT a parenting manual for a mother who instinctively wants to parent, not train, her baby.

GetOrf, I wish!!

Friend is in the US, though.

Holy crap, I thought you were being hilariously satirical too

I think that was Morningpaper's phrase, @ Byeckers

(is MP still around?)

Bad joke, really bad joke, retold very badly by someone in MNHQ in radio Interview in the midst of Israel's last little skirmish with neighbours. But still just an obvious silly remark, taking Mick out of GF critics more than anything else.

There was another rather personal daft joke a year or 2 before that (no I won't repeat), and that's what kicked off GF's original anti-MN vendetta, because people didn't think it was a joke & thought it was an insider truth about her personal life.