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I was speaking live on BBC3 Counties Radio this morning in regards to breast not always being best. Forcing mothers to believe that breastfeeding their baby is best is doing nothing more than making the women who can’t or do not want to breastfeed feel bad about themselves. I was 19 when I had [...]
A mums a confession Due to baby brain and all that last week I had a big day ahead of me, it was very hectic. Three hours into my shopping day my little girl started crying for her bottle, I reached into my changing bag to find I had forgotten to pack the formula milk. [...]
The breast v bottle feeding debate has been going on for decades and most likely will carry on for a quite a few more. You hear all the different arguments but have you ever heard of an evolutionary debate to why you should breast feed? I know I haven’t. With evolution every generation [...]
Members of the European Parliament (MEP’s) are planning to debate and vote on changes to Maternity Leave. If these rules are passed the UK has to implement them thanks to our membership into the European Union. Now for those who haven’t heard, the proposed changes are: Every mother who returns to work full-time [...]
If mums who bottle feed are not made to feel guily enough here we have yet another report to make us feel even worse. I have breastfed 4 out of 6 of mine and will continue to recommend bottle feeding to those mums who feel they can not breastfeed for their own reasons. [...]
Like any preganant woman, I was all prepared. I had endless bags of clothes, some new, some second hand, hundreds of nappies in and a cupboard full of wipes. I had planned to breastfeed my son but had bottles and a microwave steraliser ready for when I wanted to express milk.
How safe is your baby’s bottle? Recent claims suggest that a potentially toxic substance in plastic, known as Bisphenol A, or BPA, could be seeping out of bottles.
This was one of the many comments that people have said to me or to people that have dream feed their babies. On the subject of dream feeding there is a big argument for and against. But does this really mean that parents that dream feed are “lazy” or “selfish?” I was advised to dream [...]
“I feel sad for the baby that mothers don’t breast feed” This statement really got to me, someone on a networking site said this to me because I choose to bottle feed. Am I really doing something wrong for choosing to use bottle and not breast? Do people judge start away because I said that [...]
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