I thought I’d share some of these pieces of advice that I’d heard recently; some directed at me, some at others. Read them and see if you can tell why they made me particularly sad.
If you’re nursing a toddler, don’t let them pull up your top in public. It might put someone off breastfeeding.
If you want to overindulge in drink over Christmas, make sure you have some EBM ready. Then make sure you pump and dump the feed you’ve missed and give the EBM instead.
Never let your baby fall asleep at the breast; they’ll never be able to go to sleep any other way.
I think some breastfed babies are fatter than they should be, because their Mums always use the breast as a first resort to comfort them, rather than looking for other ways.
So what does all this bad advice have in common? It was all handed out by other breastfeeders and some even by so-called “experts”. 
If we can’t even get it right, what hope is there for anyone else?
