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STOP PRESS Cost of formula is at historic high, other than falling by 50p/can last year. Parents can't afford it although you can get formula for much less (£6.99) in Aldi and Lidl, within the cost of healthy start vouchers. Now let us handwring. theguardian.com/business/2025/…

Not an unusual experience. So let's not pretend otherwise

Some benefits of breastfeeding are real (but not all of them 😉)

An unusual phenomenon ... a doctor prepared to acknowledge that breastfeeding brings some significant downsides. Salute to you Ashley Winter MD || Urologist 🫡

👀Doctor acknowledges some downsides of breastfeeding AND suggests some ways these can be effectively managed with good medical care and gets accused of being anti-breastfeeding ... Her response is 🔥 She's no more anti-breastfeeding than us!

The reality of "rooming in" - now enforced in all NHS maternity wards in the name of supporting breastfeeding and bonding

A truly radical proposal to transform maternity services - that might actually work. RT if you think Wes Streeting should take it seriously. Here’s the problem, imho: Maternity services in the UK have been ideologically captured by the "normal birth" movement. The belief that

No stone left unturned ... including breastfeeding promotion, skin to skin, rooming in, breastfeeding support services & the "baby friendly" initiative Scrutinise it all! Wes Streeting this could save thousands of lives & take the pseudoscience out of maternity care forever

Also applies to formula and insufficient breastmilk 💥

Whatever would we do without these busy bodies handwringing about advertising?

Somehow they never mention this in the wiffle waffle about breastfeeding, bonding and "skin to skin" (aka contrived, prescribed naked cuddling in a not so safe position)

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Are WHO/Europe advocating for the return of wet nursing ... This year's #WorldBreastfeedingWeek materials are the best yet Fear not Sue Haddon is here to help us ensure historical and cultural accuracy 🍿

The WHO is essentially admitting that breastfeeding has always had and needed substitutes. Now women don't need to employ (some may say subjugate) other women to feed babies, either out of choice or necessity, they can now use formula. Happy World Breastfeeding Week! #WBW2025

Some people at the WHO Europe think that 19th c. French upper class women exposed their breasts in public.

Support breastfeeding! Just like women used to - by hiring poorer women to do it for them! Happy #WorldBreastfeedingWeek #empowerment #yourbodymyway #feminism #smashthepatriarchy #boycottnestle

Infant Feeding Alliance To not even *realise* that this is NOT that artist’s wife, and the mother of that baby, but his servant, who possibly wasn’t paid or asked her consent to be the model for these portraits… And that she’s only breastfeeding for the money… It would be funny, if it wasn’t so sad.

Catherine Roy Sue Haddon In my career: long & I’ve loved every minute of it: I remember postnatal nurseries: PN wards - staffed by a fab RN. And mothers waking after a night of rest: able to care for babies: & me showing them safely how to make up formula feed B4 discharge. This was right NOT wrong!! ❤️

Dr Katie Cairns Dr Ruth Ann Harpur Infant Feeding Alliance Katie, oh, the painting is even more interesting than that! The artist is a woman! A rare female c19th painter. She is paying a woman to breastfeed her baby while she paints. She is deliberately making a comment on women's roles and freedoms, work, class relationships etc...

Sue Haddon Dr Ruth Ann Harpur Infant Feeding Alliance So literally the only reason we HAVE this painting is because the artist chose NOT to breastfeed, because she wanted to create art instead. Amazing!