Your experience of feeding your baby

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.1 • 3K Ratings

🗓️ 30 January 2019

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Listeners to Woman's Hour and BBC Radio Sheffield share their experience of breast, bottle or mixed feeding. Following our survey which found half of women felt they'd let their baby down when they struggled we discuss how women make their decisions, the difficulities they encountered and things they wish they'd known. Presenters Jane Garvey and Paulette Edwards Producer Jane Thurlow

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0:00.0	Hi, this is Jane Garvey and this is the Woman's Out Podcast from Wednesday,
0:03.7	the 30th of January 2019. This is a phone in addition of the show, in cooperation with
0:10.9	our friends at BBC Radio Sheffield. It's really an extension of the conversation we've
0:15.4	been having all week about feeding your baby. And you are about to hear, well I hope you
0:20.5	enjoy the range of calls and the range of stories and some of them are funny. Some of them
0:27.6	are really really sad and if I've learned anything from this, it's that too many women are feeling
0:33.9	guilty when they shouldn't and it can go on for years. So here's the phone in, it features as well
0:40.0	Paulette Edwards, who's the mid-morning presenter on BBC Radio Sheffield. Good morning, how are you?
0:45.5	I'm really well, I'm not well, as you know, because we've discussed it, but well yeah, enough of
0:48.5	that. Now who can forget our seminal menopause programme? Almost nobody heard it, that's for sure,
0:54.5	which is why we're repeating it with a conversation today about feeding your baby. And it's fair
0:59.7	to say, Paulette, this is an emotive issue, isn't it? Absolutely, yes. I've interviewed lots of people
1:05.7	about lots of things. I've talked to people about things that I've never done, never been involved
1:10.3	in. I have spoke very openly about the fact that I've never been a mum, never had a child myself,
1:14.9	but I found this completely different talking to people about feeding their babies because
1:20.8	the response you get to how much, how close it is, how much some of the discussions around it
1:27.6	have buried. I spoke to four of my friends yesterday, in fact, who I've known for years and years,
1:31.6	and never had this conversation with. One of them said that she tried to breastfeed for two weeks
1:36.0	with both babies. She said she absolutely hated it. One said she had nipple shields, she said they're
1:40.8	like rubber sombreros on her nipples to get her through. One said her first baby needed to be fed
1:45.6	with her on her on her left side. So on the right breast, she could cradle her on the left side,
1:50.5	she had to hold her like a rugby ball against her side. And the fourth friend said that she had a
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