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Original poster

Anyone seen the MN microsite?

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hunkermunker · 15/11/2007 22:22

here

I've a couple of comments about it - especially the bf section (surprise, surprise!).

And the weaning section.

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fishie · 15/11/2007 22:31

ooer it is errrrm commentworthy. where is this microsite and what is it doing?

pinkspottywellies · 15/11/2007 22:32

I just went to this from the banner. Advertising, yes?

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hunkermunker · 15/11/2007 22:33

It was a link from a topic - can't remember which now. Health, maybe?

It's just feels a bit "not MN" - the stuff about sterilising, weaning onto baby rice and the breastmilk storage stuff is wrong too - it can be kept for longer than that.

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policywonk · 15/11/2007 22:34

How utterly extraordinary that so many of a small baby's needs can be met using Phillips products.

Peachy · 15/11/2007 22:34

I really want to keep BF- how do I make it mroe feasible

why wasn't it 'feasible' in the first place

bizarre

sparklygothkat · 15/11/2007 22:37

I was told that Breastmilk can be stored in the fridge for 48 hours in the fridge while in SCBU

fishie · 15/11/2007 22:37

"it's fantastic that you want to continue to breastfeed" subtext aplenty there.

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hunkermunker · 15/11/2007 22:39

SGK, Mears linked to something ages ago that says 8 days in main body of fridge (not door).

Not sure how that goes with prem babies though - might be different.

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MegBusset · 15/11/2007 22:40

Funnily enough I raised a virtual eyebrow on one of the Sleep threads, about her insistence that you should leave the baby to fall asleep by themselves, just returning to comfort intermittently.

Like Hunker, I just felt it was not in the MN ethos of 'whatever works best for your family'.

I know that MN has to take advertising to survive, but I have always been a bit suspect about advertorial where it is not super-clearly marked as such.

MrsBadger · 15/11/2007 22:44

hadn't seen the microsite
I suppose it could be worse

been posting stroppy qs on the other thread though...

PeachesMcLean · 15/11/2007 22:44

I guess to be fair it does say "Philips Avent promotion" across the top of that page. But why ask questions to her when you can ask them to 250,000 visitors a month and get a variety of answers from which you can work out your own opinions, rather than just following yet another "childcare guru"?

MrsBadger · 15/11/2007 22:47

at the advert in the sidebar too
'Avent Airflow bottle - easy to combine breast and bottle feeding'

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hunkermunker · 15/11/2007 22:50

They never want you to combine breast and bottlefeeding.

It's a fucking great big con, that.

All the "closer to real nipples" stuff about bottle teats, easier to combine breast and bottle - it's a sop to women who want to breastfeed desperately and it makes me really, really cross.

It's like formula cans that say "to complement breastfeeding" - oh, just fuck off.

God, I'm cross.

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moondog · 15/11/2007 22:51

Fuckwits

(Hey Hunker, loved your paraphrase of the ideal breastfeeding pamphlet t'other day!!)

CantSleepWontSleep · 15/11/2007 22:54

Haven't time now to look at much of this, but disappointed in MN for setting this up. Not going quite as far as the aptamil thing, but definitely a step in the same direction.

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hunkermunker · 15/11/2007 22:56

Was that the "breastmilk's best for your baby, it just is, lots of clever people have worked it out, it's not said to make you feel bad, please live with it and we'll talk kindly now about how to get that breastmilk into your baby, which can be a trickier proposition, but you can do it!" one, MD? Heck, I've just paraphrased my own paraphrasing. Is that paraparaphrasing?!

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moondog · 15/11/2007 22:58

Yes!! Brilliant.
(You added an 'ok' though as in 'it just is, ok?')

CantSleepWontSleep · 15/11/2007 22:59

Oh missed that hunker. Sounds great. When are you going to print?!

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hunkermunker · 15/11/2007 23:00

LOL, CSWS - I rather think I'll post it on my poor neglected blog

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CantSleepWontSleep · 15/11/2007 23:01
MrsBadger · 15/11/2007 23:03

but I am trying really, really hard not to ask 'so, why did someone who was once a bf counsellor helping those confused women kick it in to work for a firm whose mission is to make money from them?'
Hopefully she is changing the system from within...

[sits on hands]

AitchTwoOh · 15/11/2007 23:10

i find myself oddly Really Upset about this. perhaps i have over-identified with MN for too long? this just feels totally, totally wrong.

NormaStanleyFletcher · 15/11/2007 23:11

" When you decide to wean your baby onto solid food very much depends on the baby"

well sort of

" It is recommended that breast milk is the main form of nutrition for baby for the first six months, and that mums delay introducing solids until around then, but some babies are weaned earlier. However, you should not wean earlier than four months. "

No - it should not be done before 6 months I thought???

I don't like this

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hunkermunker · 15/11/2007 23:12

Aitch, I feel the same.

I think it's time for a break, actually.

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BoysAreLikeReindeer · 15/11/2007 23:12

I am a bit erm uneasy about this.

Seems like one of those 'infomercials' on Sky TV, IYKWIM

Not very MN

How depressing