Friday, 17 August 2012

Dr Miriam Stoppard undermines breastfeeding

Dr Miriam Stoppard wrote a piece about breastfeeding in the Mirror this week.

 http://www.mirror.co.uk/lifestyle/health/when-should-you-stop-breast-feeding-1259599

Much of it was bollocks. If you want to know why, read on. My comments follow each paragraph of her text (which is in italics).

There’s no keener fan of breast-feeding than me. I always advocate breast milk as the perfect food for babies from birth to weaning.

That’s right, must get the breast-is-best message in first so that nobody can tell you off.[1]

So this is me

In order to avoid shouting at the TV, alienating my friends and generally annoying people on Facebook, I think I need a venting forum. Aka a blog.

I may also talk about things I like, such as knitting, my family, babywearing, books, music and science.

But mostly I expect I shall be shouting at people who are wrong on the internet.