Should breast and bottle feeding be split into two topic titles?

[mears]

Will that stop bottle feeders being offended by breastfeeders?

[FluffyMummy123]

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[belgo]

no and no

there are no easy solutions to the arguements that go on here.

[FluffyMummy123]

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[hunkermunker]

Cod, why do you care so much that other women care about bfing? Why does it bother you? Can't you scuttle off back to Boden and mascara threads if it frets you so much? I don't come and tell you you're caring too much about silver eye pencil, do I?

[mears]

what do you mean cod?

[hunkermunker]

Oh, sorry, forgot the

Mears, no, I don't think the topics should be split.

[FluffyMummy123]

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[hunkermunker]

But you've posted before, in a dismissive fashion and I thought this was more of the same.

Why do I care? Why don't you? Two sides of the same coin, really.

[hunkermunker]

And as for "mad" - that harks back to the "why are breastfeeders rabid" thread, which makes me pretty cross, really.

[FluffyMummy123]

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[mears]

I just get mad with the same old shite getting trundled out and wish for once breast and fomula feeding could get discussed rationally.

I promised myself not to input on these kind of threads again but I got sucked in today.

I am a nice person and get sick and tired of accusations that I judge other women.

Yes I have taken it personally which is what happens in these stupid useless threads.

[hunkermunker]

Seriously though, I know you care about community things. You're a magistrate, so it stands to reason you mind about society happenings. Wouldn't you feel a bit slighted if somebody asked why you bother?

[belgo]

we need people to care passionately about things, whatever thing that happens to be. That's how change occurs hopefully for the better(oh and how wars start too)

[mears]

Although I no longer feed I support women daily in my job. That is why I hate this misrepresentation.

[JeremyVile]

God no. Why should it be split?

The only way to stop people , either side of the debate, being offended, is for people to NOT BE OFFENSIVE.

[FluffyMummy123]

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[Eulalia]

I think if you want proper advice/information about one or the other it would be helpful to separate. ie if you had problems establishing b/feeding then you'd get info from people who had already done it instead of having to wade through valid but not very useful comments such as "it doesn't matter how you feed your baby as long as you love them" and so on.

I think things like EMB should still stay in breastfeeding because it is EBM you are giving. Don't know about mixed although to mix feed you must have established breastfeeding first so obviously important to do that.

To me they are both completely different things and its obvious that many people who do breastfeed or bottlefeed think totally differently hence the number of arguments so maybe best to have it back to separate threads?

[mears]

I don't think people are being offensive.

I think people are taking offence (I certainly am today)

If they were split then those offended by breastfeeding supporters could ignore them by not having to click on a thread title that mentions the word 'breast'

[hunkermunker]

But if you didn't have people who cared a lot about things, then nothing positive would ever happen.

I care because I know I can help people. So I do. I think you probably only see me on the inflammatory 250+ post threads where it's all got a bit heated and silly. I doubt you've seen me posting on the other bf threads where I get a kick out of helping somebody who's struggling to bf. It's a nice thing to be able to do, so I do it. It's not wholly altruistic, you know, I do enjoy it

[mears]

Will come back to this later...............

[Eulalia]

Yes me too mears as having done it for 8 years (not boasting I hasten to add) and struggled with my first I think I may as well let all this knowledge and experience be of some use to someone else.

Must go as kids are saying they are bored!

[Eulalia]

Sorry hunkermunker I mean....

[BlueMonkey]

No I dont think that it should be seperate, why should it, we are all adults and as such should be able to take on board that there are differing oppinions in all subjects. If there is a disagreement talk about it discuss the pros and cons of all types of feeding methods, calmly and without insults etc. as I thought the website is to help and inform parents by using your own experiences,
because by god there is a wealth of it on this site.