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The perils of breasts, bottles, and babies

31 Mar 05:50am

Filed under: Babies, Bottle Feeding, Breastfeeding, Celebrities, Jackie O, Mothers, Society

So, radio personality Jackie O crossed a quiet, leafy, Double Bay pedestrian crossing while bottle-feeding her six-week-old daughter and made the mistake of being photographed.

Mothercraft and Nannies director, Jenni Waldron, tut-tutted in the Daily Telegraph that “it would be best to sit comfortably in a chair and hold your baby correctly while feeding”. She was probably caught off guard too.

Jackie felt compelled to explain herself on air: ‘I was running late and Kitty was screaming…’. Yes. I feel like doing that myself when I read stories like this.

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Asif says:

08:10am | 22/11/12

Oh I had such a hard time breastfeeding my dgtuhaer, I hated it and it never felt ‘natural’, and I had postnatal depression… I stopped at 8 months on the advice of my doctor, and when I was pregnant with my second I decided that I would try breastfeeding and… Read more »
ERin says:

03:54pm | 06/04/11

“Do these imitation nipples crack and bleed while you cry and feel like a failure? Does the set come with a bonus pack of bottles and unprompted judgmental comments from perfect strangers if the plastic flowers don’t work properly? If not, I’m not buying it. It doesn’t really sound like… Read more »

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