AAAAARRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[AnarchyAunt]

aaaaaarrrrrggggghhhhhhsplutter

Ah thats better.

I know, I know, I can do nothing at all about it, its not my business, I don't have to look...... But aaaarrrrgghhh.

Which one??

Ah, think i've found it.
You'll probably be banned now as they will report you. It gets frustrating doesn't it? BUT, there have been a few people who have listened, or at least looked up the advice for themselves, and then realised. So it is worthwhile.

Yes, I didnt want to link directly......
My time there will end soon. It's entertainment value is waning and it's becoming more like an old episode of Star Trek Next Generation where they discover a planet whose inhabitants only speak in grunts and they want to kill everything that moves because it's either sport, or dinner.

aww
Makes me want to sing

Argh, wrong one.
I meant this

In all honesty I'm not sure if it'd make a real difference to the lives of these children just being weaned a bit later.

Sweeping generalisations and stereotypes coming up, I know they're not all like this but I'm angry and I want to vent:

I've seen a woman saying smoking when pregnant isn't that much of a big deal then posting on other threads about how all her babies have been small/ early - so there's no connection there then? The attitude is exactly the same saying the stress of giving up is more harmful to the baby and happy mum = happy baby. They can justify almost anything using this argument. Leave 'em to cry and they soon learn not to - less stress for mummy. Put 'em in front of the telly so you can do housework/ have a fag - happy mummy. Put rusk in the bottle so they sleep all night - happy mummy.

It's so sad that there are genuine, nice people on that site who are being given terrible advice but I've reached the banging head against a brick wall limit. If I stay much longer I'm just going to descend into chav-baiting and that gives them the ammunition to say that we're all horrible, know-it-all bitches who aren't concerned for babies welfare but just want to start a fight.

But it's not necessarily for them, is it? What about the mother who is umming and ahhing? She's looking to see what other people do and why the guidance is there. If they're left to it that will be another baby who's weaned early because they're in a middle of a growth spurt and no one tells them that and that it will be over really soon.

Exactly TBM, it's that mother that keeps me posting.
Oh, and of course my stubbornness.

I've had another browse on those forums and I think it's all really depressing and actually very irresponsible of Bounty. No one seems to know about making up bottles safely either. There is a continued feeling that anything a mother wants to do is fine, and anyone offering a reasoned, informed view is being aggressive. The ignorance and closed mind-ness is sad

I nearly was that mother! Found bounty because you get a bounty pack in hospital and got shit advice from a HV so came pretty close to weaning early (by this I mean 17 weeks and it would've been just veg purees, I'm not stupid just badly advised).

I'm lucky that DS will only sleep in a sling while I bounce gently on a birthing ball so I ended up wandering round internet sites as it's about the only thing I can do at the same time. Found mumsnet and realised this was somewhere I could feel at home . I ALWAYS come here for proper advice but I've sort of kept up bounty as well. Just reaching the end of my tether now...

I posted a link on one of the threads to the story from a few years back about the baby who died of salt poisoning at three months after being weaned onto readybrek and instant mash. The HV had told her to introduce family food as the baby seemed ready, and the poor mother thought she was just 'following her instinct'.

Was this mother's instinct right? Did she know best? Or was she appallingly badly informed and ill advised, yet told she could rely on this mythical 'instinct'?

Not one of them answered me. They all carried on wittering about how "mummies no [sic] best".

Not always, they don't. They are too skewed by cultural expectations and pressures, advertising, crap 'advice', media bombardment, shite they read on forums like Bounty...

Do we have an HVs or MWs on here with some good advice? It annoys me that they keep saying the posters aren't professionals, can we convince a professional to post over there?

I saw AA.
Have you seen this?

Yes it was a delight to read. May have to post them a picture of me now.,...

miaow

And it's gone, shows they're quick enough to moderate except when people are giving dangerous misleading advice...

Banned again?

No, not banned.
Not yet.

I saw!

Maybe they have realised it is futile?

Resistance is futile you will be assimilated!

Maybe you need to get down to their level (which since they are accusing you all of geting on your high horse, would presumabmly be that of a Shetland pony)

hiya hun, think mayb ur little mans not reddy for rice some peeps who no say his tummys not reddy til 6 months i no u no ur bub best but betta safe than soory rite?

Sorry, forgot the:

hth

lol Rusty

What did you put VS??? I'm intigued11