The Bounty thing generally makes me ABSOLUTELY STEAMING. I didn't sign up for the freebies, but only because A did, none of them were much cop, and they've been sending her piles of crap in the post ever since. (Otherwise I'd have been all 'oh hey free stuff' & likely filled things in without thinking about it.) Also I'd just gone through all the freebie magazines I got handed at my first midwife appt & was therefore in a really big strop about the whole thing.
In particular the child benefit info, yes. In the middle of a big pile of marketing is an excellent place to put that, yes! RAGE RAGE RAGE.
"help your baby to eat sensibly and enjoy their food" -- we should bear in mind here that 'eat sensibly' also often translates to 'control food in certain ways'. i.e. this is the thing that in moderately short order becomes 'worry about your child's weight'/'teach your child to worry about their weight'; and later 'YOU ARE TOO FAT & EAT ALL THE WRONG THINGS'.
In a *total* tangent on the exercise front, I have become confused of late about the suggestion I have seen (from vaguely-medical sources, although have not asked midwife/doctor & will endeavour to remember to do so) that one shouldn't start doing [certain sorts of exercise? never very well-specified] until after your abdominal muscles have gone back together post-birth. Is there an important difference between the separation *pre*-birth and the separation *post*-birth? Because neither midwife nor GP has suggested to me that I should stop doing anything in particular, despite the fact that my abdominal muscles separated a few weeks back. Which I only happen to know because I sat up (not 'a sit-up' or anything, just, y'know, sat up in bed) and went WOAH HOLY SHIT WHAT IS MY STOMACH DOING. Anyway obviously I am not asking you either, just meandering b/c am curious about the rationale and also it is reducing my Bounty-induced rage. (Maybe it's OK when they're separating *around* something viz enormo-baby-containing-womb?)
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Date: 2012-01-25 04:45 pm (UTC)In particular the child benefit info, yes. In the middle of a big pile of marketing is an excellent place to put that, yes! RAGE RAGE RAGE.
"help your baby to eat sensibly and enjoy their food" -- we should bear in mind here that 'eat sensibly' also often translates to 'control food in certain ways'. i.e. this is the thing that in moderately short order becomes 'worry about your child's weight'/'teach your child to worry about their weight'; and later 'YOU ARE TOO FAT & EAT ALL THE WRONG THINGS'.
In a *total* tangent on the exercise front, I have become confused of late about the suggestion I have seen (from vaguely-medical sources, although have not asked midwife/doctor & will endeavour to remember to do so) that one shouldn't start doing [certain sorts of exercise? never very well-specified] until after your abdominal muscles have gone back together post-birth. Is there an important difference between the separation *pre*-birth and the separation *post*-birth? Because neither midwife nor GP has suggested to me that I should stop doing anything in particular, despite the fact that my abdominal muscles separated a few weeks back. Which I only happen to know because I sat up (not 'a sit-up' or anything, just, y'know, sat up in bed) and went WOAH HOLY SHIT WHAT IS MY STOMACH DOING. Anyway obviously I am not asking you either, just meandering b/c am curious about the rationale and also it is reducing my Bounty-induced rage. (Maybe it's OK when they're separating *around* something viz enormo-baby-containing-womb?)