Posts by Roxswood

I think once baby is capable of picking up the food, getting the food to their own mouth and chewing and swallowing that is the right time.    Babies do sometimes get short of iron around 6-9 months especially if their...

I've breastfed wherever I happened to be with no cover or blanket for the first 2-3 years with both children. After that it was rare they needed it when in public so it didn't come up so often but I never had a negative experience....

It's always difficult to phrase things so nobody can take offence. We used to have a rule on another forum that if a post could be read with different inflection to mean different things we as readers had a shared responsibility in...

Just an aside, if a child is dairy allergic, they can still have breastmilk. Mum is not a cow and doesn't live in a dairy. Some children may react to fragments of dairy proteins in breastmilk and their Mum may have to go dairy free if...

In every respect other than the bit where you said supplementing with formula is fine your top message is exactly the one that is in LLL philosophy. We can't honestly tell mothers that supplementing with formula is fine. Many babies...

What a lovely idea, I have breastfed just about everywhere in the 8 years since my first was born. I'm also in the UK. :)  I'm also called Clare (although without the i)!

In terms of benefits of feeding directly from the breast as opposed to feeding EBM from a bottle, the act of feeding from a bottle rather than a breast can cause mouth formation differences which can cause dental problems, teeth...

Thankyou Greenmama for your carefully thought out and educated responses. There are lots of LLL Leaders around on here, who try their best by giving up hours of their time every week to try to help women with no recompense. Not every...

I don't understand how LLL speaking out about the media normalising bottlefeeding is being viewed as an attack on the choices of mothers?    What we see in the media very much influences the choices we make, and we are...

Oh my goodness. Thats awful.    Here in the UK my then 3 year old daughter needed five cavities filled ( we still don't know why this happened but the decay started before she ever even ate solid food ) but the specialist...