I give you clear warning, this place is goiing to go NUTS when Channel Four airs Bringing Up Baby on the 25th Sept... Claire Verity!!!

[Aitch]

seriously. i'm watching it now for work and it is terribly upsetting. Claire Verity says 'i'm a bitch, i'm mean to them but it works', no touching, no eye contact, lots of talking about 'baby', presumably because she can't be arsed remembering the name... oh it's AWFUL.

IF ignoring her would make her go away, then tyaca would ahve a point... but thats not going to happen is it? she is doing damage all the time that she is allowed to spout her 'advice' unchallenged.

I have complained to ofcom and channel 4 and joined socialbaby blog thingy. It sickens me to think that some parents will be influenced by CVs authoratative and bullying tone and adopt her inhumane methods.

CUDDLE YOUR BABIES!!!!!

I co-sleep and bf and you have never seen such a smiley happy boy. I love him with all my heart - why on earth would i want to ignore his cries?

Stupid woman. The human race has proliferated because we nurture our young - thats what instinct is for. Im so frustrated and angry with her for peddling such dangerous and just plain WRONG ideas. poo.

d'ya think, harpsi?

Kerrymum - yes, thats my point - we are animals and if we didnt have our nurturing instinct we wouldnt be a very successful species. That bloody woman is persuading people to ignore thier instincts.

it makes no evolutionary sense at all to ignore our young, especially as we have one at a time and we invest so much in them.

arent there human rights laws which would cover this sort of shit? denying basic human needs to anyone, let alone babies... no??

On a hopeful note - there are probably a lot of first time preggies out there who watched this programme - I know I watched almost everything with baby in the title when I was pregnant in the hopes of getting some good tips. Surely any of them who did would be able to see that CV's approach is totally wrong and will steer clear of any Truby type books or advice. Honestly, what would a man in the 1950's know anyway? It's no wonder his method doesn't advocate breastfeeding!

Actually, I found it quite offensive that any woman could sit on such a very public forum as TV and say that breastfeeding in public is wrong in any way - it was the only thing that I felt Dreena lost brownie points on. I don't go in for anything as radical as the continuum concept but the fact that Claire was proactively promoting and seen helping a Mum with breastfeeding on screen was really good.

we are a rubbish species, procreatively-speaking, it's only our enormous brains and nurturing instincts that have kept us from extinction. we don't have enough babies to let them die all over the shop.

nearly pulled my ds {2} out of his cot and his sleep to cuddle him my hug your crying baby instincts went so bad!i hope no mums to be think this is what you should do with a newborn

And people are willing to do it. Sad.

who said bf in public is wrong?

Ignore their instincts I mean!

Gosh, little flurry there wasn't there!

the otherwise nice middle-way person. it was a bit weird, actually, and lost her many points with me. as MP said, when did bfing become a tribal way? it's the human way.

I've complained both to Ofcom and Channel 4, which is a first for me.

I can't type any of what I actually feel as I'd probably get banned and/or sued

On a more positive note, it was great to see newborns being worn in slings on mainstream TV Just a shame that they had to show CV as well.

Interesting Q&A session with all three women

How about a bit of direct action? If enough people contact the companies advertising during the commercial breaks in the programme threatening to boycot their products perhaps they will withdraw their support for the programme and make C4 take more notice of objections.

Heartened by the comments on that btw:

"The point of weaning is to get the child ultimately off milk and onto real food, over a period of 1-2 years. What on earth then is the point of weaning from breast to bottle at 3-4 months? Breastmilk is the perfect food for babies, yet our culture is to introduce a poor substitute. Why?

Lynne Goldsack, Ashford, Kent,

If a mum wants to stop breastfeeding she can stop whenever she wants - but why on earth routinely wean off the breast at 3 to 4 months as suggested by Dreena Hamilton? Surely if a mum has got to 12 weeks with breastfeeding and her and her baby are settled into it, it makes far more sense to keep going if mum is able and willing to. She's done all the hard work getting breastfeeding established - the easy feeding that comes afterward is the reward! And it'd be a rare baby who'd choose to be weaned off the breast at 3 months - most babies of this age love breastfeeding and find it incredibly satisifying. Why deprive them of the pleasure and the health benefits of breastfeeding?

Wendy Hinds, London,"

nope, but then i've only seen eps 1 and 2, kerrymum.

I was thinking of direct action after a comment on this thread about CV needing a cuddle.

I thought that we could stalk her and give her hugs when she least suspected it.

But I'm not sure I wouldn't vom down her back if I got that near her.

Nope, tbh I switch off from adverts anyway. If anyone has taped it maybe they could make a list of the advertisers?

oh dear, i've gone off Dreena. she's an idiot as well. love Claire Scott, but then it turns out she's a BLWer!