I wasn't attacking you Neeny Let's stick to what was written! In a squillion years I would never mean to hurt anyone. If I did, Neeny, sorry. I was taking issue with what you wrote, not with you personally!
I also never criticised non-BFing people. By Bfing not meaning much, I meant it doesn't rate in your day to day experience, true or not? There was no judgement in my saying that. What I'm saying is, fine, you don't BF (like I say, for whatever reason, not my business!), but I don't call FF disgusting or disparage it in any way. I ask for the same respect for BFers - feeding beyond 18 months is not uncommon and it is not uncivilised. I explicitly said that I am sensitive to FFers because there are various reasons for not BFing and some people are defensive about it- why should it be a case of 'gloves off' for BFing? I'm asking for a two-way respect. I didn't think the BFing comments were fair play. I wasn't attacking ANYONE, just asking for some mutual respect.
On this thread we share our parenting experiences. I share my BFing experiences as part of parenting Oscar. I never tell anyone NOT to do anything in regards their parenting...that would be totally inappropriate!
This IS supposed to be a safe place to express a point of view, but not to offend people. Will I be able to post with you guys in 3 years' time that I'm still feeding Oscar? Do I pretend that I'm not?
I ask that we don't disempower any of our baby buddies. Please, no name calling, no disparaging someone else's methods. Let's keep it nice. I've re-read my response and I do feel that I responded with respect, I wasn't angry (hurt, yes, but not angry).
Oh, and apologies to Ali - I've misled you, I missed the very start of the segment and it would appear that some of the people interviewed DID criticise parents who don't share their parenting views - you KNOW I'm not down with that!