Zoe and the slimming pill company should have known better. Despite the general lack of public support for breastfeeding here, there are nevertheless many fierce breastfeeding advocates. Anyone who has seriously breastfed would know you must be super careful with what you take while you are at it. Come on, people abstain from spicy food, even the tiniest drop of alcohol and food and fruit of all sorts just to be sure that nothing harmful goes to the baby. And you really don't need an old, or young, wife to tell you that chemical substances are even more harmful than all those.
On top of that, a rather strange explanation about how the pills were taken by a breastfeeding mother was offered. Apparently, she stopped breastfeeding for the 2-3 weeks she was taking the pills and the baby was fed stored expressed milk. Now, what was she doing about her breast milk during those 2-3 weeks. Since she is still breastfeeding now, she couldn't have done nothing. She must have been feverishly expressing and throwing away the milk several times a day or doing multiple face masks with it daily (would the slimming chemicals do the same for the face??). For 2-3 weeks. Wow, the ends to which one would go for that slim figure. And how did she know when it was 'safe' to re-start breastfeeding?
I have to say that the easy availability of slimming pills must be really tempting to new mothers. I really envy those who lose all the excess weight just by breastfeeding. 10 months of breastfeeding didn't take it all away in my case. How unfair life is. However unfair, though, slimming pills should be approached with extreme caution. It doesn't help that even GPs are dishing them out but I suppose that is better than buying them off the shelf -- or from a good friend who then becomes not a good friend -- and guessing the appropriate dosage. If they might be harmful for baby, obviously they might not be all that great for the adult body either.
Exercise and healthy food choices. Why aren't actresses endorsing these rather than slimming treatments and pills?
On top of that, a rather strange explanation about how the pills were taken by a breastfeeding mother was offered. Apparently, she stopped breastfeeding for the 2-3 weeks she was taking the pills and the baby was fed stored expressed milk. Now, what was she doing about her breast milk during those 2-3 weeks. Since she is still breastfeeding now, she couldn't have done nothing. She must have been feverishly expressing and throwing away the milk several times a day or doing multiple face masks with it daily (would the slimming chemicals do the same for the face??). For 2-3 weeks. Wow, the ends to which one would go for that slim figure. And how did she know when it was 'safe' to re-start breastfeeding?
I have to say that the easy availability of slimming pills must be really tempting to new mothers. I really envy those who lose all the excess weight just by breastfeeding. 10 months of breastfeeding didn't take it all away in my case. How unfair life is. However unfair, though, slimming pills should be approached with extreme caution. It doesn't help that even GPs are dishing them out but I suppose that is better than buying them off the shelf -- or from a good friend who then becomes not a good friend -- and guessing the appropriate dosage. If they might be harmful for baby, obviously they might not be all that great for the adult body either.
Exercise and healthy food choices. Why aren't actresses endorsing these rather than slimming treatments and pills?
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