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Anyone watching Bringing Up Baby part 3?

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themothership · 09/10/2007 21:17

I am debating whether I should really be sitting here watching it, feel like I'm being rather complicit...

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MerlinsBeard · 09/10/2007 21:26

those poor poor babies

of course its not hard for CV they aren't her children!

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themothership · 09/10/2007 21:27

Jeez, parenthood is not all about sitting down at 7pm with a beer to relax. Well it's not why I didn it. For f**ks sake!

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Tamum · 09/10/2007 21:27

"the idea is to keep them going until they're absolutely shattered and starving". How can this be allowed to go unchallenged like this?

CantSleepWontSleep · 09/10/2007 21:27

Ooh - a little mention for cot death -hurrah .

PillockInThePumpkin · 09/10/2007 21:28

is that it? today some experts believe.........

made it sound like FSIDS advice was a whim

notnowbernard · 09/10/2007 21:28

She is in my personal opinion a fucking android

hunkermunker · 09/10/2007 21:28

Surely that voiceover was shoehorned in at the end?! The bit about cot death?

Aitch, was that on the first version?

FrankAwenstein · 09/10/2007 21:28

One liner before ad break about keeping baby in the room. Shocking.

lisad123 · 09/10/2007 21:28

they twist the bottle to keep babies awake so they take full feed!

MerlinsBeard · 09/10/2007 21:28

but they were starving at the feed when she denied them more than an ounce

this is the forst one i have manged to watch all the way through and that does strike me as bordeline abuse-starving a child ffs

TheOldestCat · 09/10/2007 21:28

Note the hastily added voiceover about SIDS advice re: babies sleeping in the same room as their parents!! Clunk!

Tamum · 09/10/2007 21:29

Oh yes, some people think that there might be a slightly decreased chance of cot death... ffs.

Why doesn't she just put them on a drip and be done with it? Then they could stay outside with the foxes 24/7 and the parents could get their lives back.

choolie · 09/10/2007 21:29

OMG this woman!!! cut their feed so they eat more later??? just take them to the cafes she eats at where people drop their pants all the time, that'll put them off their feed.

Mum of twins is going against all her instincts - why why why???

I wonder if any of these parents have thought about the fact that these babies will be grown-ups wanting to watch this programme about their parents one day?!!

Oh I don't know if I can carry on watching, the poor twins they're starving them, then when they're trying to sleep off their hunger as they're being deprived of their food, they wake them up screaming!!! So it's ok for babies to scream in the day and be obviously unhappy, just to get some peace at night?!! they're so tired the poor mites can hardly feed.

pobletsmum · 09/10/2007 21:29

bottle twisting is to force baby to stay awake and fnish whole bottle to make sure they last the 4 hrs till next feed.

What an odd moment to drop in a mention of cot death. Very bizarre!

hunkermunker · 09/10/2007 21:30

And how the FUCK is the method that "won" at the end of that bit the one that left a new mum feeling so shit?

FFS! Claire Scott's method was "a bit of a commitment" - well, that's having babies, fgs! Surely that wins over wrenching your heart out hearing your babies screaming?

And don't get me STARTED on the force-feeding...

AitchyBabesHugz2AllUHunnis · 09/10/2007 21:30

very weird. don't remember that before... but they did say something. might have been soemthing funny about the outro. perhaps it'll be repeated?

morningpaper · 09/10/2007 21:31

cot death mention was obviously dubbed in afterwards after the complaints

am shaking with rage at whole thing

MerlinsBeard · 09/10/2007 21:31

bare their breasts in public

gingerninja · 09/10/2007 21:31

Aaahhh this programme is making me so angry. Why did those women doing CV have children for godsake?

lisad123 · 09/10/2007 21:31

my dd goes 4-5 hours in night on Breast feeding, am i meant to twist my nipples to get her have more??

morningpaper · 09/10/2007 21:31

Voice of doom: "They have to BARE THEIR BREASTS IN PUBLIC"

ffs

CHOCOLATEPEANUT · 09/10/2007 21:31

CV gives routines a bad name.I did GF and it was NOTHING like this

AitchyBabesHugz2AllUHunnis · 09/10/2007 21:31

hmm. not a mistake. very shit, it was practically subliminal.

Pelvicfloorlotsofgore · 09/10/2007 21:32

I told my mom about this programme yesterday and she was absolutely sickened that anyone would wish to treat babies in this way.

I cannot understand why the twins mum doesn't go with her gut instinct which is surely to protect and love those babies.
Why does she sit there crying? she knows it is wrong.

MsHighwater · 09/10/2007 21:32

I'm raging about the "some experts" crap. Daisy Goodwin has the gall to claim that "the programme makes current guidelines...clear" in this article.

And in the same article, she makes out that the critics of the programme oppose the idea of routine.

Claire Verity is NOT about routine but about NOT CARING FOR THE BABY.