MSE Parents Club Part 9

SusanC_2

I've just got to, "Do you think it's a woman's right to breastfeed in public?" It's not about the woman's right to breastfeed - it's about the baby's right to be fed.

SusanC_2

And can I ask because this always seems to be the issue with people who are against it: Have you ever seen someone breastfeeding in public not doing it discreetly?

pinkpig08

Hi all

Have filled in the survey but was a bit confused by Q9 - seemed like a bit of a double negative and not very clear.

Have got a chocolate orange sponge in the SC - will see how it turns out later!

DH phoned earlier - his sat nav has broke so he needs to get a new one. Funny that - seeing as he's been banging on for weeks about getting a special one for trucks to use for work. I think the company should pay for it - it's more for their benefit than ours. But DH says it's him who would get the fine for going down a weight restriction/width restriction etc.

He's also arranged for a bloke to come round at 3 to give us a quote for re-pointing the house - yeh, like we can afford that! And, typical of him, he's not back from work yet so looks like I'll have to sort it out :mad:

SusanC_2

ladybirdintheuk wrote: »

They are definitely digging around about older babies aren't they.... I didn't know that about the quaran though. (I don't know how to spell it either!)

I think there are different versions for spelling it because it is transliterated from Arabic.

weezl74

SusanC wrote: »

And can I ask because this always seems to be the issue with people who are against it: Have you ever seen someone breastfeeding in public not doing it discreetly?

nope! And this question contains a discriminatory opinion I feel. You can't say about a FF mum, 'what they do in the privacy of their own home is their business I just don't want to see it!' and you can't say about a heterosexual couple holding hands 'what they do in the privacy of their own home is their business I just don't want to see it!'. But apparently it's fine to say and think those things about BF and also same sex expressions of affection.

But my belief is that both are subtly discriminatory, and that's often the worst kind of discrimination.

However the tide is turning. (slowly slowly) I was told in Boots on friday that they could not let me redeem advantage points against ANY baby milk. I said that they can after 6 months (follow on formula) she was adamant though. So we did a little experiment. I got some newborn formula and we tried redeeming the points: no joy, then we tried it with the follow on (I was confident cos I looked online first) and I was glad I stood my ground cos I was right!

tarajayne

Anyone married to an accountant? cannot work out whether to ditch the company car and fuelcard or not. Sorry to barge in!

Sami_Bee

weezl74 wrote: »

Ah right! rice dream and oatly are only about 10p a litre cheaper so not a huge advantage there.....

I don't suppose there's a local farm shop where goats are milked is there sami?

also, this stuff is 94p at the mo, so that's quite good for the boys to have on toast?

Thanks for looking hun :kisses3: I'll give the soft cheese a whirl though hopefully it'll replace the mamouth amounts of philly we eat
not sure about getting it from a farm shop, I only of 2 round here but they're both just veggies

weezl74 wrote: »

meh! tried it. But Kester has a willy

:rotfl:This is one of the best quotes ever :rotfl:
sorry it didn't work for you honey x

Tigsteroonie wrote: »

:hello:

All gain is good gain, yes?

Andrew's only put on 100g (3oz) in 10 days ... Not really enough to keep the paediatrician happy. I don't want to phone her on Monday I know she'll tell me to put Andrew onto premmie formula for some of his feeds

I told you the other day all gain is good missy

can I just mention in a totally non judgemental way that food has less calories/fat than milkand therefore weaning is not condusive to weight gain...
Chris is a 'normal' child and he rarely gained more than 1oz per week past 17wks old, if he'd gained 3oz in ten days we'd be calling him fatty chunk bum :rotfl:

SusanC wrote: »

I like it. I think it's in Isaiah. But I can't even persuade OH that Caleb isn't too unusual so I wouldn't have a hope with a name like that.

I think it is in Isaiah, its definitely a biblical name acording to my googlings, Caleb is a gorgeous name but my OH veetoed it


oh Harley - a chefy guy called mark who's sometimes on saturday kitchen has a daughter called Kezia

Tia - why wouldn't Chris get a 1 on 1 helper at a 'normal' school? if he came to mum's school he would, they already have a lil boys with downs that had a similar level of speech as Chris when he started and the LEA fund his assistant

Becles - thankd for the milk info, maybe my big tesco will have own brand in stock


oh Susan I think the word discrete with regards to BFing should be banned!! It really gets my goat (is that the saying? ) If Edgar decideds to have a squinny when feeding and I flash my nipple as a result - so what?!

OMG Fat Families has just come on sky1 never watched it before but I feel sick just looking at what the family eat nevermind actually eating it!

SugarSpun

I've done everything on my list for today - not sure what to do next :rotfl: I just did a bonus job I've been putting off for ages just for the sake of getting it done and now I feel all smug.

Did the survey - !!!!!!?!?! "a woman's right to breastfeed"? A woman's right is to not have to leave her child screaming from hunger because some Daily Mail-reading troglodyte believes that catching a glimpse of a breast behind an infant's head is going to cause anarchy.

And you know those are the same people who would tut and shake their heads if they encountered the same infant screaming from hunger.

tarajayne

Thanks for Boots info Weezl, have £80 boots point so I could get follow-on milk then?

tarajayne

Sami_Bee wrote: »

Tia - why wouldn't Chris get a 1 on 1 helper at a 'normal' school? if he came to mum's school he would, they already have a lil boys with downs that had a similar level of speech as Chris when he started and the LEA fund his assistant

Was wondering this myself but didn't ask??? :rolleyes: