Stay at home snowflakes, don’t get social media, leave us the hell alone.
“A snowflake is someone who is easily offended or felt they needed a “safe space” away from the harsh realities of the world, but now has morphed into a general putdown for anyone that complains about any subject”.
I am fed up of bloody snowflakes, can’t say anything without someone get offended, like seriously what has happened to the world that everything upsets someone.
Can’t ask if someones baby is a boy or girl as some weirdos want to let their child decide what gender they will be, we must refer to them at theybies, BULL SHIT, your baby either has a penis or it don’t! What is so wrong with being a girl or a boy.
Can’t criticise someones behaviour even if they are being a total cock just in case they have a disability or a rough childhood, Mate if someone is urinating up my car what should I do, bloody smile and them and ask them if they are ok, according to snowflakes I should be more understanding of other people’s needs, oh fuck a duck dear, my car has rights to, the right not to have some cretin piss up it.
Please for the love of all things sane stop getting your knickers in a twist, yes things piss me off (often) but I don’t need to constantly throw the “bullying” card around or the this offends me line or the best one ever “you need Jesus” nah pal he needs me.
If you get that upset and need a poxy trigger warning above each post you clearly are too highly strung to be able to cope with social media, take up knitting Barbara Big Balls.
Vegans go home, Breast is best SHUT UP we know, genderless kids oh bore off.
You bunch of melts its time you lived in the real world, no one will ever have the same views on some subjects and you forcing your shit down our throats won’t change a thing.
I personally feel Asda are shaming formula fed parents.
I had my twins in March , Ava and Adam were born at at 34 weeks and spent three weeks in the Neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) neither of them were strong enough to latch on to my breast to feed, or were able to suck on a bottle so they were fed through an Iv line with donated breast milk, i tried so hard to express but it just wasn’t happening.
I ultimately decided when my babies were strong enough I would put them on to formula, well my little ones thrived, gained weight and began to take bottles of formula and before we knew it we were taking our babies home.
The twins went from strength to strength and were drinking lots and lots and lots of formula, soon we were getting through 6 tins of formula a week.
One saturday my husband and I took a trip to our local Asda’s and decided to do a big food shop with our beautiful twins being pushed in their double buggy.
We placed 6 tins of formula into our trolley and got the rest of our food shop, we loaded our shopping on to the conveyor belt, once it got to the formula the shop assistant said “i am really sorry but we can only sell two tins per family”. I tried to explain that I had twins, pointing to the buggy and my babies, she replied with “sorry it’s our store policy”.
I demanded to see the manager and he was the most unhelpful man ever, simply telling me it’s 2 per family and that i could buy two today and come back tomorrow for another two, when I asked why, he said it’s to make people breast-fed and think before feeding their babies formula.
A long come perfect mum of the year pushing her own baby in a trolley, she had heard everything that had gone on and she just had to stick her nose in ” if you breast feed you won’t have this problem now would you”. The manager chuckled, he actually chuckled at this womans comments.
Why can’t I feed my baby, why can’t I buy my babies food, if I were breast-feeding and was asked to stop there would be a media frenzy.
I have two babies so clearly need more formula, why is it even limited? surely if there is a need for it they should stock more.
Breast is best we are all aware of the benefits of breastfeeding and more woman are doing just that, including extended feeding, all over the internet and the television are people promoting breastfeeding and explaining the benefits of doing so, Breast milk contains antibodies that help your baby fight off viruses and bacteria. Breastfeeding lowers your baby’s risk of having asthma or allergies. Plus, babies who are breastfed exclusively for the first 6 months, without any formula, have fewer ear infections, respiratory illnesses, and bouts of diarrhea.
But there are some dads out there who are using their own nipples to comfort a crying baby, and people are arguing over this.
One mum who wishes to stay anonymous told us ” I personally think men who use nipples to comfort a baby are sick in the head what on earth is wrong with just using a dummy, using your hairy arse nipples is bloody gross, and if you think it is normal you really need to seek mental help”
Val Mitchell however doesn’t agree with the above lady , Val said “What a wonderful idea, dads will gain such a great bond with their precious baby, it’s cheaper than a dummy and when the mum is out the babby still feels the warmth of a body, hears the beat of a heart and has the comfort of the nipple, I wish my husband had done this when mine were small, it would have given me so much more freedom to go out and do a shop or pop and see a friend, my daughter Poppy would only take comfort from nipples so my husband couldn’t stay home alone with our daughter for long”.
What are your thoughts do you think men using their nipples to comfort a baby is okay or just plain wrong? Let us know your thoughts in the comments
“Ok, I’m going to say it for us all. Breastfeeding is hard. It’s really, really hard. Sometimes I can’t even explain what makes it so difficult. The uncertainty, second guessing, responsibility, commitment, discomfort…just to name a few. We trusted our bodies to grow our babies for 9 months and now we have to trust our body to supply the nourishment for our babes growth & development. Talk about pressure😳 Breastfeeding is full of unanswered questions. You truly don’t know what’s going on down there. Too much? Too little? Too intense? Not enough hindmilk? Not enough time? Plugged duct? Mastitis? WTF!!!
As if it wasn’t hard enough😓And of course the biggest way to know if you’re doing well is if the baby is gaining weight…great, let me just whip out my handy dandy baby scale😑..But, even with all of that. We all so desperately want to survive and push through. We so badly want to have our baby thrive. We want that relationship. We want the experience. In the end, fed is best. That’s what matters. But all I know right now is that breastfeeding is hard. I am doing my very best but always have a question in the back of my mind. Always second guessing myself. Always wondering if I’m doing OKAY. I’m determined to tough it out. I want to do this. Mamas really do need all the support they can get. So mama, you’re hearing it from me, you’re not going crazy, it is hard, but you’re doing good. Keep going!! There’s a rumor going around that it gets easier😌”
Since I have now been a parent for 11 years now I think I am highly qualified to dish out some unsolicited advice across the internet, you can thank me later. A few cheeky things I have learnt since I became a mum especially a mum to 3:
If you bottle-feed your precious baby then they are statistically 100% more likely rob a grandmother when they get older.
If you breastfeed your baby then your child will still be breastfeeding on their wedding day. Oh and also could you put them away please, you are totally turning us all on.
If you use a dummy your child will never speak and when they do it’ll only be to say ‘give me a dummy now’. When they’re 18.
If you don’t use a dummy your baby is in grave danger. Just generally. Particularly of falling coconuts.
If you leave your baby to cry, even just for a second (especially to read this blog) then your baby will be irreparably damaged and more than likely hate you forever.
If you never let your baby cry then you are totally spoiling them and they will more than likely appear on MTV’s My Super Sweet Sixteenth demanding a unicorn.
If your child watches more than 10 minutes of television before the age of 3 they will morph into a Mr Tumble/Peppa Pig/Piers Morgan hybrid and never stop singing jingles.
If your child has no screen time before the age of 3 then they have 47% less chance of becoming the next internet sensation and then who do you think will pay will your mortgage?
If you child has not eaten an avocado by the age of 2 then they will be unable to answer complex equations when being inexplicably quizzed by a stranger at a bus stop.
If you only feed your children healthy foods then they will have zero self-restraint and will always be the one getting shit faced on party food E numbers and tequila slammers at every single 3rd birthday party.
So there we go, a couple of things since I have learnt since becoming a mum, you are so very welcome.
On a serious note (if you’ve got this far) the only real thing I’ve learnt as a mum is you can find any article/statistic/Facebook post/interfering neighbour to back up what you want to do for your baby and 100 more to tell you you’re wrong. As long as you’re loving your baby and listening to yourself you’re doing a great job. And if no one has told you that today – you ARE doing a great job.
*also all information in this blog is factually incorrect. I bottle fed and my kid only robbed a grandmother once and I’m pretty sure it was a misunderstanding*
After hitting the 1 year breastfeeding mark last Sunday I felt compelled to share my story.
Breastfeeding did NOT come easy for me. My milk came in after 5 days. I wasn’t aware that it could take that long, I didn’t even necessarily know what “milk coming in” meant. (Nobody ever taught me.) I was the only mother breastfeeding on my ward. One women did try to breastfeed, but switched to formula after 12 hours because she “had no milk” (nobody taught her either.)
While the other babies slept with full bellies, my son screamed and cried attached to my breast through the night. (What was cluster feeding? Nobody told me) When I got home, problems started to arise-my nipple literally cracked in half. I have never felt such pain, I dreaded every feed, but persisted with tears in my eyes until I was healed. (Nobody taught me that breastfeeding could be painful, nobody taught me what a good latch looked like) When feeding my son out in public I would either go to the bathroom or pump at home and feed him with a bottle.
Because I felt embarrassed and as though I would make others uncomfortable. This resulted in clogged ducts and engorgement. (I feed freely in public now, and have done for a long time. Fuck this backwards society!)
Then came mastitis.
I remember waking up at 3am shivering, putting on my dressing gown and extra blankets and trying to feed my son. The pain. It was excruciating. I was shaking and sweating but freezing to my bones. At 5 am I woke up my boyfriend and told him I thought I needed to go to the hospital. We got my stepdad, a doctor, he took my temperature and said it was slightly high, but to take a paracetamol and try to sleep. 7am comes, I’ve had no sleep, and now I’m vomiting, he takes my temp again. 40 c. I had developed sepsis overnight.
This was because I was not able to recognise the more subtle signs of mastitis (as I had seen no redness that day) I was rushed to resus, given morphine, anti sickness and the strongest antibiotics they could give, and separated from my baby for two nights.
I was Heartbroken.
During my hospital stay, I repeatedly asked for a pump, because if I didn’t drain the breast my mastitis would get worse (and it did) The nurses response was “we’re having trouble finding one as we don’t get many breastfeeding mothers here”
There’s a lot more to this story but my point is, the lack of support and education surrounding breastfeeding is just terrible. And I don’t mean in terms of relaying the benefits of breast milk and handing out lactation support leaflets. I mean general education, about the basics of breastfeeding, about cluster feeding, about the problems that can arise and what to do, how to spot them and how to remedy them. The peddling of formula in the 60’s/70’s has broken the vital cycle of passing knowledge from one generation to the next. (I know formula saves lives and serves a great purpose) but in the past we would have had our mothers, grandmothers, sisters, aunts and friends, all giving their support, their wisdom and their knowledge.
But many of our mothers and grandmothers don’t know, as they never breastfed.
Women are not expected to give birth alone, but somehow today they are expected to breastfeed alone, and not share their experience with others, and this is why so many breastfeeding relationships end before they’ve even really started. The breastfeeding rates in the UK are shockingly low. The health system, and society in general is failing breastfeeding mothers. I see many professionals push breast is best almost aggressively in some cases, and yet there is no real support post baby. Breastfeeding is HARD, it needs to be taught and it needs to be learned. Just like walking, talking, reading and writing it may be natural, but it does not always come naturally.
And this is what I should have known but didn’t, this is what I might have known if breastfeeding rates were higher, if this society didn’t objectify breasts. If new mothers knew just how difficult it can be at first, more would take themselves to prenatal breastfeeding classes, buy books, join forums, and ask more questions – But we don’t, we just assume that it will feel as natural as breathing. Because no one ever told us.”
You’re a bad parent if you’ve shamed a bottle feeding mum.
If you think pushing a baby out of your vagina or being cut in two was all the insulting you’d endure whilst bringing your baby in to the world… you’ve got a shock coming.
It gets worse.
As a bottle feeding and bottle fed mum, I think I can speak for all bottle feeding parents out there when I say that pushy, breastfeeding mums are like the antichrist of all motherhood.
We hate them. Loathe them. We avoid them like the plague.
They can’t sit with us. We don’t hate breastfeeders, not a single bit (you rock) – we just hate the breastfeeders that dislike bottle feeders because they think they’re a cut above the rest.
I’ll let you in on a little secret; if you’re already bashing another parent this early on in to motherhood, you’re already failing faster than the bottle feeder you’re already bashing. I’m all for the “a fed baby is best” – because that’s the truth.
As an adult, honestly, can you really tell who was bottle fed or breastfed as a child? Absolutely not. Don’t be daft.
I was bottle fed from day one; I have no major health issues, I don’t lack intelligence, I rarely ever get poorly and I have an immune system built of iron.
We get really sick of hearing about it and your sodding boobs and how wonderful they are. Bashy breastfeeders, this is what a bottle feeding mum thinks to every shitty thing you say to her;
“If you bottle feed, your child is likely to be prone to more allergies.” So is a breastfed baby. “You’ll bond better.” Please, don’t go there. “Maybe you should have just tried for a bit longer.” Maybe you should f*** off. “I can give you some advice.” No thanks, f*** off. “It gets easier.” Ever had a baby with colic? Clearly not. F*** off. Come on. Weigh it up, guys.
Anybody would think we were actually poisoning our children with formula (that’s what the breastfeeders say anyway.) It’s actually perfectly safe and gives our babies all they need, without worrying if we can do that ourselves – because some of us actually can’t. Do you know how difficult it is to bottle feed? If we could just pop a boob out as and when we felt like it, produced a load of milk or “liquid gold” like you guys, got to get our babies back off to sleep just by resting them on our boob in the middle of the night, then we would, wouldn’t we?!
Imagine washing, sterilizing, prepping, remembering to prep and all the other hassle that goes with it… I wouldn’t really say that was an easy way out at all, would you? (Let’s not forget those mad dashes for the kitchen in the middle of the night, because you forgot to take a bottle up to bed with you – they’re the worst.)
Breastfeeding your baby doesn’t make you a bad parent, bottle feeding your baby doesn’t make you a bad parent – judging mothers on their decisions if different to yours makes you a bad parent. We’re all trying to do what’s right for our children and your opinion or approval isn’t needed, but thank you. Keep your thoughts and judgmental views to yourself and we’ll do the same.
These are some of the most dangerous replies we have ever received on Mums advice
Question: My baby is still waking up for feeds in the night how can I help him sleep longer?
Reply: Put Rusks in his bottle to fill him up for longer.
Please do not do this it is a serious choking risk, your baby will sleep through when ready.
Question: What contraception does everyone suggest?
Reply: I use the pull out method yet to get pregnant
No, No, No this is not a great way to prevent pregnancy, you can get pregnant through pre-cum and is not effective method.
Question: My baby always seems to have wind any suggestions to help her bring it up?
Reply: Hold her upside down by her legs
Just no seriously lets all dangle our babies by their legs.
Question: At what age did everyone wean their babies?
Reply: I weaned my baby at 8 weeks and he’s absolutely fine
Come on guys really we all know that just because one baby was fine doesn’t mean its ok. Weaning is not recommended until 6 months
Question: Whats the best thing for teething?
Reply: Rub brandy round their gums or add salt to their dummy
What are you even thinking do I really need to explain why these methods are wrong
Question: I’m 2 days over due what can help start my labour?
Reply: Castor oil
Please for the love of god do not use castor oil it can give you serious diarrhoea but more importantly can mae baby come too quickly causing them to become distressed and poo inside of you.
Question: my 3 year old keeps biting what can I do to stop this?
Reply: Bite them back teach them a lesson
Ok lets all bite our children, what a great life lesson. NOT. Not only is it wrong on so many levels it’s also abuse.
Question: When did you change the teets on bottles to make the flow faster?
Reply: I never bought new teets i just cut the tips off.
This is so dangerous if a teet on a bottle starts to break or split throw it away, bits can come of and baby can choke
Question: My 5 year old keeps swearing how do I explain that it’s a naughty word?
Reply: Every time they swear put soap or hot sauce in their mouth
OK this is so dumb!!!! social services would have a field day, not to mention its terrible parenting and awful for the child.
Question: Its my sister’s wedding next month id love to have a drink but im 6 months pregnant, can I have a small tipple?
Reply: Just drink Guinness it’s full of iron and good for you
All alcohol should be avoided during pregnancy, there are plenty of nice tasting alcohol free drinks available
Question: I Cant breastfeed due to certain reasons what formula would people suggest?
Reply: If your child isn’t breastfed they wont be smart
oh come on love we all know breast is best but it makes no difference if they have breast or formula to their intelligence.
Question: My baby is 6 months old and looks a bit squashed in a rear facing car seat can I put then in booster seat?
Reply: Yes my baby moved to a forward facing car seat at 5 months old and looks so much comfortable.
Do you not read the news? Babies should stay rear facing for as long as possible, survival rates of car crashes are vastly increased by having your baby rear facing
Mums advice work day and night trying to eradicate these old wives tales and out dated methods and opinions. What was the worse advice you ever had or heard?
Breast is best according to medical professionals and extensive research has been carried out and one of the most natural things in the world so why is it such a taboo subject and frowned upon to breast feed.
DO NOT GO OUT IN DISGUISE!
This isn’t a good look
Now this place is fab to breast feed a puppy not so good for a nursing mum Looks a bit crampedToilets are never a great place unless you’ve got the runs and have no choice. Germs, germs everywhereHiding in the cupboard is silly, although some have mummy snacks, not the most comfortable place though.A seat would be nice
Breast feeding shouldn’t be a time to feel embarrassed, or that you have to hide from the world.
Feed your baby where ever you feel comfortable.
Mums advice support breast feeding, formula and tube fed babies.
My story So some quite a few years ago I met my lovely wife, as time went on I knew she was definitely the lady for me.
She had often said she wanted children, to me I wasn’t fussed either way.
Shortly before going on our holiday my girlfriend Stacey said she was going to the doctors as she has something weeping from her nipple. So she went to the doctors and was told not to worry it’s just an allergy, and to put some cream on it and perhaps change our washing powder.
She had a sigh of relief and off we went on our holidays. On our return she without me knowing did a pregnancy test and found out she was pregnant. I wasn’t over fussed but she was happy.
As the time went on she was having a number of issues, bad back pains, leg and hip pains and starting to hunch over a lot so went to the doctors, and we were told she’s just one of the unlucky ones who’s having a bad pregnancy, she was sent to physio etc.
A few weeks later a lump had formed on her left breast which again she had checked out by the doctor and was told it’s just a blocked milk duct you just won’t be able to breast feed.
At the time I was working away a lot so she had to go to either her mums or sisters as she was struggling to do things on her own, I was helping her shower.
We did all our scans as you should found out by the nurse blabbing that we were having a boy which I was a bit more excited about if I’m honest.
Then we were at home and she went to the toilet and saw some blood in it so went off to hospital, we were told that her waters had broken at 21 weeks.
We were then told our hospital was not kitted out to deal with a baby that premature so she had to be moved to Luton hospital and monitored.
There she was for 2 weeks constantly being monitored and checked, after the 2 weeks she was discharged and we were told that yes the waters had broken but only a small amount of fluid had escaped so all was ok.
I returned to work that weekend, to get a phone call from Stacey’s mum saying they had to take her back to hospital and the hospital think she has got pneumonia.
I asked if I should leave work straight away but they said just come back in the morning as usual. The next morning I went to Stacey’s mums before going to the hospital, by this time she had been moved to intensive care ward.
I came in and saw she had been put in to an induced coma and they had been doing tests on her.
After a few hours a doctor and nurse came and saw me and said that they found Stacey had breast cancer, which had also spread to the glands under her arms her lungs, and all of her bones causing 2 vertebrae in her neck to collapse. This aggressive amount of cancer had spread so far because of her being pregnant.
They then told me that they need to give her chemotherapy there and then and needed my permission to continue. I was not sure what to say as we weren’t married at that time, but they said if I didn’t she would definitely be dead within a weekend, I asked about the baby and they said that they have done it before but as it stands Stacey was here and the baby wasn’t. I agreed and they gave her the treatment.
After a few days she was still going down hill on a breathing machine, they said they wanted to try giving her a tracheotomy (putting a breathing pipe direct in to her wind pipe ).
This seemed to help and gradually she improved, all the time still pregnant.
Eventually the doctors were saying about delivering the baby at 30 weeks while she was still in a coma. But they ended up not doing that.
She was then revived and we had to give her the news of what had been going on.
After a few more weeks she was stable enough to be moved to the cancer ward.
They were also saying that they wanted to deliver the baby and finally made the decision to do so on April the first, however my baby didn’t want to be born on April fool’s day so Stacey went in to labour on 28th march.
We were shortly moved to a maternity ward and we were taken up to delivery at about 7am on march 29th. She was told she had to have a Caesarian as her body couldn’t deal with a normal birth.
I was allowed in as Lind as the epidural worked which it did, so there we were and out came our little boy about 7 weeks early weighing 4lbs exactly. We chose his name Thomas and off he went to baby intensive care.
After Stacey was stitched up and sorted we went to see him, we were told he would be on a breathing machine for about 2 days but he was off after about 2 hours!!
As the weeks went on I would take Thomas from intensive care over to the cancer ward and also take Stacey over to see Thomas, eventually we were all allowed to go home on the same day.
All was great Stacey had fought off all the cancer except for in her bones which was being managed by regular treatment. Thomas was growing and doing fine then after about a year Stacey started getting headaches so we went to see the doctor to be told that she had secondary cancer on the brain which they might not be able to do much with.
We were managing but arguing a lot because of all the medications she was on.
Rapidly approaching was our wedding day and Stacey was really upset she lost her hair again just before getting married. Then on the week before we were getting married I was mugged I had my head stamped on etc so had to wear make up to my wedding haha!
It all went great, but over the next few months Stacey started having nose bleeds and fits etc..
Finally she was taken in to our local hospice for what I thought was rest bite but once she was there I found out they were stopping her medication as it wasn’t doing anything they would just be giving pain relief, they expected her to be there for just a few days. But after a few weeks I started to think they must be wrong, but I was, on the 9th week of her being there I arrived and I had been there for no longer than 10 minutes and she passed away 10 days before out 1st wedding anniversary. Thomas was 2.
Thomas is now 8 it has been very hard for me especially when he’s upset about missing his mummy. But we get through it.
I’m not looking for sympathy. I just hope my story will educate people of some of the early signs of cancer
