Mother Pukka #8 Everything is a lie, isn’t it?

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I completely get the importance of good nourishment postpartum but the smugness of that post from the Food Doula really jars at this time of year particularly. A carousel of middle class white women who they have 'nourished' with £500 boxes of food feels very off when lots of people are choosing between heating and eating this winter.
 

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Andsotobed said:
I completely get the importance of good nourishment postpartum but the smugness of that post from the Food Doula really jars at this time of year particularly. A carousel of middle class white women who they have 'nourished' with £500 boxes of food feels very off when lots of people are choosing between heating and eating this winter.
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Food Doula can just duck off. People who can afford £500 food boxes obviously have a strong support network who they can send to Waitrose for nibbles to replenish their poor, tired bodies after doing what millions of other women do every year without complaint.
 
Andsotobed said:
I completely get the importance of good nourishment postpartum but the smugness of that post from the Food Doula really jars at this time of year particularly. A carousel of middle class white women who they have 'nourished' with £500 boxes of food feels very off when lots of people are choosing between heating and eating this winter.
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Wow I have no words for this!!! "Food doula" indeed. What next? Cleaning doula? Toilet doula?

I admit I have limited patience for any kind of doula if I'm honest. Perhaps I'm being mean but the only ones I've met are the give birth in a meadow surrounded by flowers type and they get my goat 🤣
 
How is her engagement doing? I can’t imagine her audience would be interested in this content. Surely everyone who followed her during the height of her insta fame has passed the baby stage now?

My kids are younger than hers but I am out of that stage now and, quite frankly, never want to see another post about postpartum anything or breastfeeding or night sleeps etc etc. It’s all consuming when you are a new mum, but as content for anyone who is not a new mum, it is wildly boring.

Anna’s audience is surely women who had kids and are now getting to the stage where they are finding a bit more freedom after the early years. Excited to find themselves after years of prioritising family. The last thing you want to hear about is some bint droning on joylessly about her leaky boobs and postpartum body.
 
heddaverse said:
How is her engagement doing? I can’t imagine her audience would be interested in this content. Surely everyone who followed her during the height of her insta fame has passed the baby stage now?

My kids are younger than hers but I am out of that stage now and, quite frankly, never want to see another post about postpartum anything or breastfeeding or night sleeps etc etc. It’s all consuming when you are a new mum, but as content for anyone who is not a new mum, it is wildly boring.

Anna’s audience is surely women who had kids and are now getting to the stage where they are finding a bit more freedom after the early years. Excited to find themselves after years of prioritising family. The last thing you want to hear about is some bint droning on joylessly about her leaky boobs and postpartum body.
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Well I had a baby in 2015 and was following her and I've just had another one, so I daresay there are a few lunatics like me about 🤣
 
heddaverse said:
How is her engagement doing? I can’t imagine her audience would be interested in this content. Surely everyone who followed her during the height of her insta fame has passed the baby stage now?

My kids are younger than hers but I am out of that stage now and, quite frankly, never want to see another post about postpartum anything or breastfeeding or night sleeps etc etc. It’s all consuming when you are a new mum, but as content for anyone who is not a new mum, it is wildly boring.

Anna’s audience is surely women who had kids and are now getting to the stage where they are finding a bit more freedom after the early years. Excited to find themselves after years of prioritising family. The last thing you want to hear about is some bint droning on joylessly about her leaky boobs and postpartum body.
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Most of this audience will be shaking their heads at her deciding to go back to the start with a new baby at her age. I’m in my 40’s with all kids at school, I couldn’t think of anything I’d rather not do than have another baby.
 
DaisyDeluxe said:
Most of this audience will be shaking their heads at her deciding to go back to the start with a new baby at her age. I’m in my 40’s with all kids at school, I couldn’t think of anything I’d rather not do than have another baby.
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Have another baby with a joyless, mostly absent stranger whilst living with a much younger woman whose only aim in life is to get attention through her “mad” sexual exploits.

Here I thought of something worse!
 
pommobear said:
Wow I have no words for this!!! "Food doula" indeed. What next? Cleaning doula? Toilet doula?

I admit I have limited patience for any kind of doula if I'm honest. Perhaps I'm being mean but the only ones I've met are the give birth in a meadow surrounded by flowers type and they get my goat 🤣
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Having been wrecked by three traumatic postpartum haemorrhages, I always quite liked the idea of a doula to help in recovery. Thankfully my mum stepped in to that role. But I also recognise that it would be a huge privilege to have a doula and out of reach to most people. I'd be more on board with the Food Doula if they had some sort of social action element to it and were doing something to help new mothers who actually need real support. Anna could volunteer her time perhaps, given she has so much of it.
 
DaisyDeluxe said:
Most of this audience will be shaking their heads at her deciding to go back to the start with a new baby at her age. I’m in my 40’s with all kids at school, I couldn’t think of anything I’d rather not do than have another baby.
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It’s not even the fact she’s starting again or her age but that she was such a moaning cow about her other children when they were tiny
 
All this breast feeding nonsense about it being a super power and all the pressure is what made me feel like a terrible first time mum. I was going through a horrendous time during pregnancy and was put on anti depressants. These were safe during pregnancy but not for breast feeding but mistakes were made and I breast fed for a day before anyone realised. When they told me I had to stop breast feeding because it wasn’t safe, I was inconsolable and demanded to come off the tablets. Obviously they said no as I was suicidal and going to a mental health unit for mums and babies. An absolutely beautiful Spanish consultant came to see me and told me how her mum never breast fed her and look how well she was doing, it was not the be all and end all of being a mother! I’ve never forgot those words.
Also that baby is now predicted ABB in her A levels and has 4 conditional places and 1 unconditional place for Uni next year 🥰
 
Maria1 said:
Food Doula can just duck off. People who can afford £500 food boxes obviously have a strong support network who they can send to Waitrose for nibbles to replenish their poor, tired bodies after doing what millions of other women do every year without complaint.
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I’d like a toast doula. 🍞
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Trufflepuff said:
Oh god just had a look at the Food Doula website and it’s making me cringe. “Nourishment deliveries”, “ food support”. Thanks but I’ll take scoffing a Crunchie at 3am to see me through the night over bone broth and congee 😂
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I have a personal biscuit tin next to my nursing chair.
 
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