Coooeee, VS! I have a conspiracy theory to test...

[AnarchyAunt]

So, who runs Bounty? Who moderates it and who are they accountable to?

Its a commercial enterprise, no? Bounty and the baby food companies are licking each others arses connected. They have free samples of 'from 4 month' food and follow-on milk and all sorts in Bounty packs. Like this

So therefore its presumably not that important to them to ensure that safe advice is given out on the forums, as they are actually promoters of baby food.

Or am I paranoid?

Lol!! I am just making myself more cross!!

I can't believe there aren't ethical practice guidelines about hospitals giving out commercial material. The more I think about it the more cross I'm getting too.

Horrific isn't it.

I didn't realise bounty do the same in Australia.

I hate Bounty
Advertising crap

They spammed me too even though I asked them not to send me anything. The spam email I got from them was for an advert of a loans company - how bloody irresponsible is that? It's blatant marketing not even pretending to be good advice like boots, babycentre or gurgle emails. Plus in adverts for the ladies that go round the maternity wards they want someone with a background in sales... why should the nhs allow salespeople to talk to mums who've just given birth?? It's outrageous really - I think the nhs must be given just lots of money by them.

It's the child benefit forms that shock me the most. Surely it would be easier and more reliable to have the forms in the registry office and given to you when you register the birth?

Absolutely VS, or given to you by your midwife.

It's also annoying that they provide all that crap along with your pregnancy notes, the first bounty pack. Why are they allowed to do that? I guess th nhs really needs the money from them...

hospital gets £1 per pack given out..

Really!!!???? How did you find that out?

Child Benifit forms used to be given at the registry office when \i had DD1 in 2003, then in 2008 they when not.

Noopska - where did you find that out? Thats quite interesting!

VS - please can you remind me of the last time guidelines were 3 months for weaning? wanted to point out that it has definitely not been 3 months in the last few years