half price sale on breastfeeding slogan t-shirts. For one day only, Sunday 6th Sept

scotsgirl_3

I have to admit I am not a fan of these T-shirts. I think there is enough/too much pressure on women to breastfeed, when they may either not be able to, or it may just be the wrong choice for them for various reasons, without babies being used like advertising hoardings too.

Loopy_Lobes

So women who have successfully breastfed and are proud of it are smug? what a sad world we live in.

Fidget

Arrrrrghhh!! No bragging about it in t-shirt slogan form is sad. Like it or not there is a subtext to these slogans and whilst they may be "promoting healthy choices" they also scream "we are making the right choice and what others are doing is wrong and they don't care like we do".

I successfully had a baby as my body, in theory is designed to have one. I don't wear a t-shirt boasting about the fact or put my child in a t-shirt saying how fertile we are even though I am proud of that fact!!! That would be arrogant.

supersunshine

Yep I agree that breastfeeding is nice but not always possible due to lots of reasons, tongue ties ect ect. I feb my children but wouldn't publicise it as i did it for their benefit not to prove a point (just realised how ironic that is considering I am posting this message).

I do however like the washable nappies t-shirts - may even make my own for my little girl to explain her big bum :-)

heggied

Don't really want to weigh into this discussion, as it's off-topic and *so* much a matter of personal choice, but ...

I'd just like to say (as a parent) that there's much, much more to bringing up a child than what you feed it for the first few months of its life. I wish people would stop being so evangelical about it.

scotsgirl_3

Heggied, that's very much my feeling on it, I just dislike the holier than thou attitude which SOME people have regarding breast feeding. My best friend is a nurse in special care baby unit, and I witnessed another friend lecturing the nurse about how she should try to force all mums to B/F, and it didn't matter if they were in agony, had terrible mastitis, whatever other complications, they should just put up with it, because anything else is going to be so unbelievably bad for baby.

I know that's an extreme view, but it is the way SOME b/f supporters come across, and I just wish everyone could be more understanding really. I don't think anyone should be made to feel bad for their choice.

supersunshine

Sorry guys, hope it wasn't me that you thought was being angelical about it - that wasn't how it was meant to come across.

I have seen this from lots of angels having suffered from mastitus (horrid thing to have), having a baby that didn't like feeding from me as he kept chocking on milk and after listening to some poor woman sobbing her heart out as she couldn't feed I could feed my other two kiddies but there is no difference in their health, mind or soul due to this. In fact my youngest has had the most illnesses and she was fed the longest so bang goes the immune system theory.

It is a completely personal choice, just think it is a bit strange to have a t-shirt about it.

tara747

I agree - as I said before, I just have no idea what these t-shirts are meant to achieve. :huh:

supersunshine

I know what you mean, I can understand the washable nappy one as that is an eco thing (mind you my little girl wears then due to being very allergic to disposables) but can't understand the other ones.

jules888

I hav 2 boys and loved Breast feeding them.I just think its nice if mothers just give it a go.Its not for everyone.