Do Mumnet have stickers? Lady on the bus needs my urgent help, ta.

[OliveWhoIsNotHereOhNoNotAtAll]

Right. Pregnant woman on bus. I sit near them and every day I hear them giving dubious advice on b/f (oooh it's really hard, don't bother, get it straight on the bottle), weaning (earlier the better, 3 months hahahahaha) etc etc.

Now I am not one to push my views on anyone (ha!) but I am thinking she needs a bit of balance and want to discreetly let her now about us without giving myself away (or coming across as a loon).

So, do you do stickers?

Someone was going to organise car stickers dont know it if happened or not??

There was talk of a bumper sticker, wasn't there, but you need a business card type of thing. Shaped like a bat, preferably.

my tongue is going to have a hole in it from biting it at this rate

God, it's stressful hearing that sort of tosh. Do you speak to the pregnant woman, ever? Does she seem happy with this advice? Is it coming from friends, or random other bus people?

It's very frustrating, isn't it. You could press a printout of the home page into her hand and say 'Oh, I think you dropped this...' on your way out one day.

I was thinking that Jackie, or drop the internet into the conversation then mention MN?

you could chuck "that Fern Britton swears by Mumsnet" into the convo. casual, like.

Thats a good one, throw in a celeb connection
Dont mention GF though

No, we all wait for the same bus, they all work together.

But they all have older children so maybe they were told to wean early/bottles etc

I mean, I weaned early as my hv told me to, but I don't think I would again.

Also, I don't understand why you wouldn't at least try to b/f, even if you then went onto bottles (don't start a big row on this please, it is my opinion and I am sticking to it!).

I am sure she lives near me though, will try and start up a convo and say 'mumsnet mumsnet' then run away before she asks who I am.

OO, if everyone tells you that bottles are as good as breast (which lots of people do believe), why would you bother with all the faff of breastfeeding? Particularly as lots of people don't seem to manage it at all, and fail at it, and have to bottlefeed, anyway? Why take the hassle and risk of breastfeeding when you might well end up bottlefeeding anyway?

(A local BFC has met a young mum locally who failed to bottlefeed - baby wouldn't consider bottles, even though that's what was offered from the start. Was fine with breast. Very strange. Mum wasn't very pleased.)

but it isn't a faff! First few weeks are a bit hard on the old nips but faff? Never!

And I speak of someone whose 2 girls refused bottles until about 5 months old and wouldn't give me a minutes peace, I had to feed, run to the hairdressers...hurry upppppp....then run back again to screeching wails emitting from the house.

Anywayyyyyyyyy.

I may print off the home page (but after all this deleting yawnfest has died down).

xxx

OO, I agree, I didn't mean to imply I thought that, from personal experience. Well, it was a bit of a faff with DS1, but very easy with DS2. Bottles just look like hard work, and I know I'd forever be going out and forgetting them, or leaving them about to moulder or something.

But breastfeeding looks like hard work from the outside.

watch it OO some of us really DON't have the option c

yes ikwym. All my friends did it, to various degrees, 12 months, 6 months, 6 weeks etc etc so I had lots of advice from them. If they had all bottlefed, I may have followed.

I know that CD (where have you been anyway?) but I don't think it is the same for this woman.

Shall I keep my nose out then?

Can't you start up an 'old lady' type conversation (with apologies to old ladies)? You know, the sort where they start talking to you when you're pregnant and then drop into the conversation 'ooh, the internet is where my friend gets all her advice these days, there's an excellent site...'

Might be worth a try.

bumper stickers still available \link{http://www.cafepress.com/mrsbadger\here} but are too much of an in-joke to be any use to you.

Have your kids got one of those badge-making kits? Or could you mock up a MN business card and say 'ooh, they were giving these out and I thought of you!'

Or as Gem suggests, fall into converstaion (maybe get up and offer her your seat?) and say 'ooh, I saw this website the other day'
The other really useful tool is the Reviews bit of the site - ie if you hear them mention tryin to choose a pushchair, carseat etc, you can lead with 'there's this website where real mums have reviewed the best pushchairs/car seats/etc'

lol at the bat

I have been in welsh wales....

ooooh whereabouts?

Tis practically up the road for me (ish)

Oh I love the cod bumper sticker. It's like a masonic handshake!!