does corrie care at all about current baby advice?

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watching Faye and baby Miley story line with interest. so far I've noticed she bottle feeds with no mention ever of breastfeeding, in fact there was even a tommee tippee bottle thing in the background, definitely being used for formula (product placement? advertising formula??), I also wonder why no one has mentioned that Faye might be suffering from pnd? why is no one helping her? and in Friday's episode Faye's mum says that Miley is asleep in parent's bedroom - ie leaving a baby to sleep alone before 6 months?

seriously corrie, what's going on?

*not against ff at all, just think bf is hard enough without a huge soap ignoring it practically every time there's a baby (didn't Maria only bf for a couple of days?)

cosmic I had an acquaintance who's baby was in scabu for a few days and she was told she could be discharged. She went out to a club and got pissed while the nurses cared for her child in scabu. Perhaps unlikely to some but these things definitely happen!

Scbu even

The guidelines might say that you should have your baby next to you while it sleeps at all times, but life just doesn't work like that. At night is one thing, but all the time? It just isn't possible if you have other children and/or work. It might be possible if you live in a small house and are on maternity leave with your pfb, but how would you even do any cleaning?

It's the insistence of following all guidelines no matter how small that put people off listening at all. More people would follow the nightime guidelines if they weren't told they had to do impractical stuff during the day.

And again: its a sodding soap, its not a PSA! If all "guidelines" and best practice were followed there wouldn't be any of the stupid ridiculous storylines you watch it for. Pretty sure killing people and constant affiars and fuck knows what else are against some kind of guidelines too....

missB I wouldn't have the energy!

There have been breastfeeding mothers on the cobbles (well, not literally). Big storyline for Tina/Izzy, and other mothers who breastfed include Violet, Maria and Kylie, and there might have been others.

I'd love to see someone baby wear/bf/cosleep oncorrie without it becoming a big thing. Just done in a " this is normal" way

It was normal/incidental for Violet and Kylie.

Who else has had a baby recently? I can't remember if we ever knew what Fizz, Molly or Kirsty did.

Faye hasn't got post natal depression she never wanted the baby from day one. I expect she was asked in hospital if she wanted to bf and she said no and that was the end of that.

MissB that sort of happened to me! I was in with DS for quite a while as he was late preterm, and the quite young looking girl (I assumed under 16) in the next bay on the postnatal ward had loads of her friends round at visiting and they sounded roudy / drunk. The midwife went to tell them off and she said it didn't matter as the baby would be taken soon anyway. Very sad.
Who needs EastEnders when you've got a week on the ward?

Really Angua?? Did Kylie breastfeed Lily? I honestly can't remember. Although I'm now considering the wisdom of writers featuring a baby being breastfed by a drug and alcohol addict...

She was drug-free before and during PG, and for quite a while afterward. It was only after Max was prescribed Ritalin that she started falling off the wagon and sneaking off to see Callum.

She's never been portrayed as an alcoholic, though there have been many times she's had a serious binge (including the day Lily was conceived).

Babies should be with someone at all times under the age of 6 months as it helps regulate their breathing and cuts the risk of sids. It is perfectly possible and an important guidelines, monitors don't do the same job.

The had a tub of SMA first infant milk on screen in corrie too which isn't on as it would class as promotion, which is illegal. I think Faye ff fits with the storyline though, but they could have at least mentioned bfing.

Kylie mixed fed I believe.

I don't know how I know any of the facts as I don't even watch it regularly for reasons mentioned above!

It's not that difficult to clean or do other things, you just put the baby downstairs for naps, you don't have to sit silently in a darkened room!

If soaps are meant to reflect real life then surely some mums shod BF and some should ff on the soaps as that reflects real life!! Not all mums can or choose to BF and that it the norm, for a variety of reasons. I don't think it's a soap's job to 'advertise' BF for every character who has had a baby. I get that it might be important in order to achieve the cultural shift that is desperately needed with attitudes towards BF but the bottom line is that some people do ff, especially young teenage mums.

I don't have my four month old sleep in the same room as I'm in all the time. It would be impossible. If she naps in the same room as dd1 then she gets woken up within five minutes as a two year old simple can't be quiet!
She goes to bed at 7.30 so my alternative is that I go to bed at 7.30 and don't spend any time with my husband in the evenings or watch TV (she's a very light sleeper). We don't have room in our living room for a crib/cot and she's outgrown the Moses long ago so not sure what the alternative is.

Sorry for all the typos. Oops.

It's not that difficult to clean or do other things, you just put the baby downstairs for naps, you don't have to sit silently in a darkened room!

And move it from room to room as you go, and hoover around it? And when your three older children also need you, how does the baby sleep in a room with a shouting toddler and a xbox on and some music?
Get a hold of yourself.

I found it impossible to stay with mine all day long, DS was the type of baby that would wake up at the slightest disturbance, so he couldn't be moved or hoovered round and I'm very much the sort of person who wanted to use the time to get on with things. The layout of our house made it tricky too, no room in the kitchen for any sort of crib for example. Anyway, I had somehow not realised that was the guidance so I wasn't trying all that hard to do it, it seems so counter-intuitive not to put them somewhere quiet to sleep.

I remember at the start faye being asked if she like spicy food and saying she does but she wouldn't have any as it makes the baby windy. So I think they must have been implying she was bf. Or feeding the baby curry.

Babies should be with someone at all times under the age of 6 months as it helps regulate their breathing and cuts the risk of sids

complete superstitious nonsense!

Virtually no TV programmes ever present a remotely realistic picture of having a baby. They can't because it's boring and it stops the parent characters from having doing amusing and/or dramatic things. Faye is a 13 year old, in a working class Mancunian community (try finding one with a high bf rate, especially for teenage mums) who didn't want the baby. Showing her using formula without even considering breast is just about the most realistic portrayal of parenting there's ever been in a soap. Frankly, you should be praising Corrie for greater accuracy than most.

Mrs - my older 2 dc are 8 & 6 I don't remember this guideline when mine where babies either, just another thing to make Mums even more paranoid than normal. Some of the things that are promoted now (like using a dummy ) were big no nos just a few years ago. It's all bollocks, decade's ago babies were left outside in the garden for hours on end alone you'd get strung up for that now. If you think how we were probably raised as babies it's a wonder any of us have survived.
Too much pressure these days on the dos / donts when in reality all it takes is a bit of common sense we all know no 2 babies are the same you've got to do what you feel is best for you & yours rather than concern yourself on what the bloody guidelines are.

I cannot see how having a baby in the same room as you and four other kids, the tv, whilst you are cooking and helping the others with homework is going to help them regulate their breathing.

It's not. Whoever writes these guidelines is an idiot. This makes up no part of the SIDs guidelines in my country.