Pregnant women and toddlers from low income families to get free fruit and vegetables

vippymini

samarnesen wrote:

i have a friend that thinks breastfeeding is disgusting breasts are a sexual thing

finally women were given breasts to feed their offspring otherwise we would never exist because formula wasnt around at the start of time
a bit dramatic i know but im sure you know what i mean

I have a friend like that too!!!!!!!!!!!!

and agree whole heartly with what you say about women having breast. Why pay when its free!!!!!

unless like me doing both...lol:D

samarnesen

i completely agree with the expressing option it is so time consuming and you worry you wont get enough
i tried to express but with the other kids it was just impossible i couldnt fit it in with everything i had to do

woekitten

vippymini wrote:

I have a friend like that too!!!!!!!!!!!!

and agree whole heartly with what you say about women having breast. Why pay when its free!!!!!

unless like me doing both...lol:D

what annoys me even more than friends making assumptins is midwives doing it! EVERYONE assumed I would bottle feed just because i was young (20 when he was born). I was spoken to in a really patronising way in the hosital about giving him a bottle which i refused, and the amount of times when i took him for his injetions and he cried and I got a horrid look of a mw who said "have u not brought a bottle for him it would comfort him you now *tut*"
She obviousl;t assumed I bottle fed and just hadnt brought one with me!

:mad:

samarnesen

my midwives and my health visitor know me well these days so i havent had that problem but i did when i had my 1st i was 20 when he was born and people assumed he would be dumped off with my mum and a bottle while i went out partying i fed him for about 8mths myself and went out once the whole time

woekitten

samarnesen wrote:

my midwives and my health visitor know me well these days so i havent had that problem but i did when i had my 1st i was 20 when he was born and people assumed he would be dumped off with my mum and a bottle while i went out partying i fed him for about 8mths myself and went out once the whole time

same here! My mum has never babysat for me as she just doesnt want to! I fed my son till he was 15 months. It just annys me that if you choose to breastfeed and do the best for your baby, you an still end up stigmatised and made to feel bad for it!

Dont even get me started on being asked ntto feed in publi!!!!:mad:

samarnesen

by the way as the post was about these vouchers just for the record im not entitled to them either my oh doesnt earn that much but we do get about £5 a week wtc which means we dont qualify for help with anything except i do get the maternity grant because we have the child tax credit at the highest rate

cherry1_2

I got my vouchers recently. As we don't have dairy i'm not bothered about the milk and have never used the tokens before, so I was pleased to get these. My only complaint is that as organic food is so expensive (and we try to eat only that) I ended up using them all in one week. Im not really complaining though, i'm happy to have them, just wish organic fruit and veg would come down massively in price as buying this stuff on my tiny tiny budget leaves me very very poor!

vippymini

samarnesen wrote:

by the way as the post was about these vouchers just for the record im not entitled to them either my oh doesnt earn that much but we do get about £5 a week wtc which means we dont qualify for help with anything except i do get the maternity grant because we have the child tax credit at the highest rate

Glad im not the only one!!!!!! thats about the same situation for us.:D

samarnesen

vippymini wrote:

Glad im not the only one!!!!!! thats about the same situation for us.:D

do you get people say to you wouldnt you be better off not working and claiming benefits as you have such a large family
god if my oh didnt work i think i wouldve killed him by now i would much rather him out of the house and us being skint than him being home all day and us being better off on benefits

vippymini

samarnesen wrote:

do you get people say to you wouldnt you be better off not working and claiming benefits as you have such a large family
god if my oh didnt work i think i wouldve killed him by now i would much rather him out of the house and us being skint than him being home all day and us being better off on benefits

ive not had that one yet , but i sometimes think it..lol mine works nights and agree if he didnt work wed be at each other throats...i aso find the kids better behaved and esier to deal with to when im on my own with them:D