Can you help with info to present my course?

Sambucus_Nigra

shelley_crow wrote: »

In this matter, if you don't have breasts then your opinion doesn't count, sorry!

My guess is he probably does.

shelley_crow

Sambucus_Nigra wrote: »

My guess is he probably does.

:rotfl::rotfl:

Steel_2

tod123 wrote: »

Mrs B (the ex midwife) has over 60 years of experience working with young mothers (incredible lady who will be 80 next month , and will be providing the professional element to the course.

I take it she's fully up to date with all the developments in midwifery and breast feeding since she retired...er...how many years ago? 15? 20? I assume she must be retired by now, which means she doesn't actually have 60 years experience. If she's been a midwife all of her life, she probably went into midwifery through nursing training at 18 and retired at 65 so she would have at the most around 42/43 years as she would have qualified as a nurse and then specialised as a midwife (what 4/5 years max for training?).

I could see how a course run by an ex-midwife might be useful, although a course run by a current midwife would be better. You however should not be in attendance.

Your failure to grasp even the basic sensitive issues around the physical, and emotional aspects of pregnancy, birth and breastfeeding will probably do more damage than good. In addition, contrary to you blithe assertion that as you've seen women whipping their t*ts out to breastfeed in public places it shouldn't be a problem, some of us only show our breasts to our husbands/partners and our doctor/midwife/nurse.

And not to some random bloke who happens to sit on a parish council committee and thinks he has useful 'skills'.

You want some topics to have on a course? Ok...

How to get dressed before 11am when you have a newborn.
What to do when everyone's interest in the newborn wears off and your partner goes back to work, leaving you scared and trying to cope alone.
How to give a token nod to nutrition for the first year when you don't seem to have enough time to blow your nose, let alone cook a decent meal.
What to do when your mother/mother-in-law, aunt, next door neighbour with 10 children, tries to take over because they think you're not doing things right.
What do to when everyone thinks breastfeeding is rocket science (like that man on the parish council committee) but your baby and your breasts just don't take to one another and you feel guilty and a bad mother.

Christ Todd, I don't have children but even I know what the main issues are with pregnancy, childbirth, breastfeeding and coping with a newborn just from being around people who have had children. What you're suggesting is not on and to be quite frank, insensitive and plain daft at times.

Steel_2

By the way, I take it with that many pregnant women/post-partum mothers with infants in the room your midwife would be able to cope with the health and safety aspects that your local council would require?

Do you have liability insurance to run a course of this nature?

After all, you don't want your ex-midwife to give advice or information to someone that was out of date or biased to their own opinion and subsequently harmed either the mother or the baby. You and the ex-midwife could be liable.

Caroline_a

I have to say that if this isn't a wind up it has to be the biggest load of tosh I've ever heard. Will the next course be entitled 'How many times do you have to shake to get all the drops off?' hosted by a Carmelite nun? i'd love to know how much money has been allocated to this so called course, and if I could offer some nearly new rope for it instead?

Tod, have you ever undergone the feeling of leaking breasts? No?? thought not. Felt your womb contract when you are feeding? No? for goodness sake, if you aren't trying to get a rise out of the women on here (and the sensible men) then I wish you luck because a room of heavily pregnant mothers are going to make mincemeat out of you.

Oh, and back in the Dark Ages we used terry nappies that we soaked in Napisan (aka bleach) then boiled them, they were beautifully white, and we dried them outside on washing lines. But it was damn hard work, and the energy used in all that boiling and machine washing (yup, we didnt all have to go down to the river and beat them with stones) probably outweighed the environmental effect of disposable nappies.

tod123

Thanks for all the help so far in getting the course up and running, its going to be a great benefit to the girls.

I can see there is a bit of negativity , but thats to be expected , and I can deal with that by redoubling my enthusiasm for this big society initiative.

Spoke to Mrs B earlier , she thinks a straight forward no nonsense approach will help us get out info across quickly , and then we can keep reinforcing over the next 10 weeks.

Getting excited about it now , and have had great feedback from the community .

CAE

I do hope that this isn't happening in my parish.

Caroline_a

So how much money did you get for this 'Big Society' non-event then?

tod123

Caroline_a wrote: »

So how much money did you get for this 'Big Society' non-event then?

Thats on a need to know basis caroline, but lets just say it was a very generous gift

mrcow

tod123 wrote: »

Getting excited about it now , and have had great feedback from the community .

Do you not find it quite sad......that the only thing you've got to "get excited" about is a made up fantasy that you're using to wind up strangers with.

What a sad waste.