Mother Who’s Breastfed Her Two Children For Eight Years

A mum of two who still breastfeeds her four-year-old son has been branded disgusting by strangers.

Beccy Ashe, 35, from Liverpool, works as a breastfeeding support worker and has been breastfeeding her two children for a whole eight years.

The mother says although she gets judgemental stares from people in public, and dealt with the backlash online, she doesn’t care what others say.

Beccy said that she knew some people believed it was gross, or whatever, and that it was okay for everyone to have an opinion about it, and that she just asks that they be respectful, and she said she knows that it’s seen as odd, and of course, people can say what they want from behind the screen, but in person, she’s never had an adverse experience.

And that with most people, once she explains it to them, there’s no negativity, and they respect that this is a choice she’s made even if they don’t agree with it.

She said that she does sometimes get some stares, but usually if she’s in public she’s focused on her child, so she doesn’t peek to see what other people think about it.

Beccy currently breastfeeds her son Tobias twice a day, once in the morning and once in the evening, and he eats solid meals throughout the day.

She said that she always knew she was going to breastfeed, but she didn’t intend on doing it for this long when she was expectant with Daisy, and that the organisation that she now works for, Breastfeeding Support, she started with them when she had Daisy, and it was there that she was informed of all the advantages of breastfeeding, like how it lowers the risk of breast cancer.

She said that when she got to six months and was starting on solid foods, she had to decide to either change her onto formula or keep breastfeeding and that it didn’t make sense to stop, so decided to carry on until she was one and then introduce cow’s milk, but she never quit breastfeeding.

Beccy continued to breastfeed Daisy throughout her pregnancy with her second child, Tobias, and she said that with Tobias, obviously she had more experience, and she wasn’t concerned that she wouldn’t be able to produce milk, and she thought that if there was any reason she couldn’t breastfeed him, she would find donor milk or attempt to find someone else to wet nurse.

This is of course totally bizarre to keep breastfeeding your children like they’re still infants, and it’s a bit like putting nappies on them when they’re eight years old.

I certainly wouldn’t be a fan, but she’s doing precisely what breasts were intended for, and I guess it’s better than drinking cow’s milk, produced from another species.

Ancient civilisations have breastfed for thousands of years and it was only in western cultures that we were programmed to be revolted by it, which is sad, and this woman isn’t hurting anyone and she indeed loves her children, and she should just be left to get on with it. However, mother nature provides a big clue when a child should be weaned off the breast, they’re called teeth!

Banning This Jigsaw Advertisement Isn’t Just Stupid

So let’s get this right! An advertisement from Jigsaw, one of British fashion’s most mainstream, middle market, don’t-scare-the-horses brands, has been banned for objectifying women. How silly.

The black and white picture in question displays a girl in the Berkshire countryside climbing over an old stile while sporting a pair of hiking boots, a white fisherman’s rib sweater, and as far as one can see, a brief sliver of a swimsuit. As a result. Jigsaw stands accused of being irresponsible and causing serious offence.

Laughably, one of the points made by the Advertising Standards Authority, in passing down judgment, is that she seemed to be out for a trek or stroll in the woods where people would not ordinarily be disrobed in that way.

The image was emailed to customers as part of the brand’s Autumn/Winter Into The Woods campaign, and it no more objectifies women, although it could turn hiking boots into fetishwear.

It depends on how you’re looking at it, or who’s looking at it, but all that I could see was a lovely, peaceful and sensitive image, thought up by a team of in-house staff as one of the add ons to the main campaign.

The picture, captioned ‘These boots were made for walking’, a nod to the 1965 hit song by Nancy Sinatra, which enunciated loud and clear that she was a woman capable of walking out of any situation, not to her taste.

Does this picture actually depict women as helpless or as hapless sex objects, and that this sort of thing should be something that we should be protected from? I don’t think so! Women wanted their rights and they got them, but now that they have them they yell from the rooftops that they’re being discriminated against or that men are ogling at them far too much.

Into The Woods was created by Joanna Sykes, Jigsaw’s Creative Director since 2019. Joanna Sykes has a hugely thriving track record in women’s fashion, especially in clothes that reverberate with grown up’s, real women. She did a stint at Aquascutum before going to Nicole Farhi for a few years.

Farhi and Jigsaw are both labels that have delivered reliable staples for women’s professional wardrobes. They’re garments for real-life rather than flights of fantasy. This is where advertising comes in because successful advertising catches the eye, which in this case, it clearly has done so.

Perhaps there’s been an outcry about the image because she has almost all of her bottom on show – she could have at least put on larger pants, and to be fair, going for a hike in the countryside, well, those pants just wouldn’t cut it, her legs would get torn to shreds by the brambles and nettles, but then the advert is totally sexualised for engagement.

But there are people out there that are offended and shocked by these catalogues, which are full of models, men and women in strange and meaningless poses to create a specific image. How long before we cancel sex altogether?

We’re apparently living in a free society and as such, it shouldn’t matter if a woman is clothed suitably or not – that’s the whole point of living in a democracy.

We’re meant to be an open-minded society, not like a bunch of disapproving old women, but all we keep doing is banning things in Britain and cancelling people, which is an extremely dangerous, slippery road to totalitarianism and hell.

It all comes down to this, all they need to do is look at the sales before the advertisement and then the ad after. If the advertisement was inappropriate or upsets people, sales will go down, but if people don’t care and believe it’s good marketing, sales will go up, so let the market decide instead of a few easily offended people.

The Most British Complaint Ever Received By A Homeowner

A homeowner received the ‘most British complaint’ ever from a neighbour who was kept awake by his Christmas light display.

The homeowner, who wasn’t named, received the polite typed letter through his letterbox, along with a timer to allow him to switch the lights off overnight.

In the letter, the neighbour explained he and his wife had been kept awake by the flashing lights and that it triggered his Ménière’s disease, a condition of the inner ear that can lead to dizzy spells and hearing loss.

He asked: ‘Could you possibly use the timer, if you really don’t need them on all night’, and added, ‘please accept this in the good faith in which it is meant’.

The kind neighbour had even preset the timer to make it easy as possible.

A photograph of the note and timer was shared on Reddit’s Casual UK forum by the homeowner’s brother in law and sparked a surge of support from fellow users.

The letter read: ‘You will probably think this is a rather unusual note, but please accept it in the good faith that is meant. The enclosure is really a Christmas present – if not to yourself and your partner, then to my wife and myself!

‘We are not sleeping well just now, as the flashing festive lights wake us through the night and trigger my Meniere’s problems.

‘Could you possibly use the timer, if you really don’t need them on all night? I have taken the liberty of setting it to switch between about 8.30 am and 11.00 pm.

‘Just set the pointer on the dial to the actual time when plugging it into the mains sockets. With thanks and kind wishes.’

Impressed by the letter, a stream of responses to the post applauded the neighbour for attempting to solve the problem instead of just complaining.

One person wrote: ‘That’s a much more polite and lovely letter than your inconsiderate brother-in-law deserves! A lovely little gift and an apology note back would be lovely’. And they said there was nothing wrong with this and that it was well written, the solution had been clearly explained and it’s a tiny thing to do that would mean a lot to them.

A third added: ‘The thought and the effort that has gone into this shows just how real and genuine it is. I hope your brother does not see it as a complaint in the slightest, it’s someone genuinely and very considerably asking for a favour from him.’

It’s also the same when people let off their fireworks at the wrong time of year, although you can’t put a timer of those things, especially when they’re going off terrorising the heebie-jeebies out of you, but then some people don’t have any respect for other people’s welfare.

Christmas is a fantastic time of the year and the lights do look nice, but do people actually need to keep their lights on at night when everyone’s gone to bed? Who’s going to see them anyway?

It’s not difficult for someone to turn their lights off at night, but they’re easy to forget, especially if you’re tired and heading off to bed, and a timer would seem like the simple solution that most people don’t even think of, and there really isn’t any need to have the lights on past midnight.

At the end of the day, what this neighbour did was just old-style good British manners and he acted calmly and intelligently to deal with the situation. There was no screaming vulgarities or physical brutality, which appears to be the norm these days.

A Transgender Man Gave Birth To A Son

A father has complained that nurses insisted on calling him ‘mom’ during his pregnancy despite being a man.

Bennet Kaspar-Williams, 37, from Los Angeles, first discovered he was trans about ten years ago, in 2011, but didn’t start his transition until three years ago.

Then six years later, in 2017 he found Malik, his future husband, who he married in 2019.

The couple decided that they wanted to have children, and weighed the options available to them because it meant Bennett stopping the testosterone hormone therapy he’d been on for several years to enable his ovaries to function.

Bennett, who’s had surgery on the top half of his body but not on his genitalia, eventually decided that he would be comfortable trying to conceive and carry a child.

He fell pregnant naturally shortly after they started trying, and the couple welcomed their son, Hudson, via cesarean section, in October 2020.

Two years after beginning hormone treatment, in the summer of 2015, Bennett had surgery to remove his breasts, paying $5,000 for the procedure.

Remembering how it took the operation to make him realise how unhappy he was about having female breasts, he said it was liberating, and that he had this feeling that it was something that he needed to do, but that he never had a self-hatred of his breasts, like some trans people, and he said that he had no dysphoria about specific parts and still doesn’t, but that he could’ve never have predicted what a relief it would be to find them gone, it was a massive weight off his shoulders.

He said that’s the end of the surgical road when it comes to his transitioning though, and that bottom half surgery is off the table because he has no dysphoria with that part of his body. However, carrying and giving birth to his own child wasn’t a straightforward decision for Bennett.

He said he always knew there was a chance that his body might be able to achieve pregnancy, but it wasn’t something he ever wanted to do until he learned how to separate the function of his body from any notions of gender.

He said that once he learned to think of his body as a tool and not a collection of gendered stereotypes, he discovered that he could both be the person he wanted to be and bring a child into the world.

Many people reading this might be appalled by the idea of a man giving birth, although years ago we watched ‘Twins’ with Arnold Schwarzenegger and Danny De Vito and thought it was a great film, but the idea of a man giving birth never really entered people’s minds, it was just a comedy.

But that was then and this is now and lots of things are transforming and our world is developing into something we couldn’t possibly understand or even want to, it’s almost as if the world has gone mad, or saying that, it might even be too late for that.

At the end of the day, it’s freedom of choice. To choose what you want to do concerning your body, after all, it is your body, and the thing that people seem to overlook is that it’s not their life and they should just walk on by.

A man having a baby will be the ‘in’ thing now. Not that it should concern other people because they’re plenty of children being happily and lovingly raised by two mums or two dads and there has been for years, and guess what? The world hasn’t ended.

Daddy’s Boy!

Fanatics have gone feral over Archie’s uncanny likeness to Prince Harry after the Duke and Duchess of Sussex released a family picture showing the first peek of baby Lilibet in time for Christmas.

The adorable family picture shows Meghan, 40, holding up their giggling six-month-old daughter, while smiling Harry,37, looks on with his arms around their two-year-old son Archie, in the image by their wedding photographer Alexi Lubomirski.

But supporters couldn’t help but swoon over Archie’s jaw-dropper red hair, commenting on how the little boy, 2, whose face hasn’t been seen properly since his first birthday last year, looked just like his daddy.

One follower wrote that Archie was so cute with his hair.

The Sussexes, who are presently living in a $14.7 million mansion in Montecito, released the card to announce that they’ve made a donation to several charities, including an organisation that supports Afghan families left behind after the US withdrawal and Paid Leave For All, in line with the Duchess’ recent campaigning for a paid family leave law for all Americans.

Their message read that this year they welcomed their daughter, Lilibet, to the world and that as they looked forward to 2022 they’d made donations to several organisations that honour and protect families, from those being relocated from Afghanistan to American families in need of paid parental leave.

It came as the couple, who used the American Happy Holidays expression rather than the British Merry Christmas in their card, prepared to spend their third festive period outside of the United Kingdom, and away from Prince Harry’s family.

In the photo, Harry, Meghan and Archie all opted for a low key look in denim jeans, with the Duchess teaming hers with a navy jumper, while the Duke sported a blue shirt and his son a white one. The couple’s daughter laughs while wearing a white getup.

The look was decidedly relaxed for the Duchess, who’s known for her love of designer clothes and costly personalised jewellery, but it was Archie who robbed the show, as hundreds of fanatics herded to the image shared to the photographer’s Twitter, with another writing that they loved all of their smiling faces, and that Lili was cute and Archie had beautiful hair.

Archie looks just like his dad with his incredible red hair, but clearly, Harry and Meghan didn’t want the public to see him, face on, but even without a frontal of Archie, we can all plainly see that the child is the image of his father.

It’s an adorable picture of the family and they look so happy together. Harry went for what he wanted for his family and he got it, and clearly, his mother’s death had more of an effect on him than we knew about, and quite frankly once the Queen dies, all might be revealed.

Although according to the media, Harry and Meghan didn’t have that many fans because they didn’t agree with what Harry did. But what did Harry do? Well, if you ask me he did what any good man would do for their family. It really doesn’t matter if it was his decision or Meghan’s or both, at the end of the day, they made that decision and stuck to it.

Not everyone is suited to live inside the Royal household with no privacy. Sadly for Harry, he was born into a family of Royals, he didn’t get the option, but Meghan did and she said no, and obviously Harry loved her enough to say it was the best thing to do – he could have said no, nobody was putting a gun to his head.

Sarah-Jane Mee Reveals She Wept As She Walked Out Of The Sky News Studio

Sky News presenter Sarah Jane Mee has demonstrated how having a baby has altered the way she responds to hard-hitting news reports.

The news anchor, 43, from East Sussex, has told how her life has totally changed since she turned 40, going from single and carefree, to engaged and a stepmother to her partner Ben Richardson’s eight-year-old son Teddy, and that the most significant shift was welcoming their daughter Rae, 1, during the lockdown, with Sarah-Jane admitting that she walked out of the studio crying as reports broke revealing footage of a newborn baby being given to Marines over a barbed wired wall by her frantic parents amid the messy US withdrawal in Afghanistan in August.

Talking to a newspaper outlet, Sarah-Jane said that the separation was easier before she became a mum.

She said that she returned from maternity leave just as the Afghanistan withdrawal story broke and that image of a baby being given over the barbed wire to soldiers would torment her permanently and that she had to walk out of the studio when that report was playing because she was crying.

She said that she had to admit that she would have laughed if someone had told her three years ago that she would move to the country, become engaged and welcome a little girl all within three years.

The presenter was introduced to branding agency founder Ben, 42, at a party thrown by mutual friend Autumn Phillips, the ex-wife of Princess Anne’s son Peter, and Sarah-Jane said that having a baby during lockdown had its ups and downs, admitting that having her partner Ben home meant she didn’t feel so isolated during the lockdown and made baby Rae’s first year about mum and dad equally.

However, it also made social media trolls more ruthless than before, with Sarah-Jane admitting that cruel jibes about baby weight bothered her.

She said that when she went back to work after having Rae, social media was overwhelmingly positive but there was one comment that noted her weight. One comment out of hundreds, but that was the one she remembered.

She replied by saying that she had no excuses, but that it wasn’t baby weight, it was lockdown weight and she was sure they had a bit of that too, and she said that she didn’t want them to know it had affected her, but that it did and that she was having such a good day and then one person said the wrong thing, but that you remember that one person and that they would probably never walk up to your face and say it.

I think the main thing here is that the baby was given over to the soldiers where it will be safe and that’s all that matters, although the parents would have been distraught and parents never get over losing a child, for whatever reason it might be. It might get easier as time goes on, but those parents will never forget.

AI Prosecutor Developed In China

Researchers assert that China has created an artificial intelligence prosecutor that can charge people with offences with more than 97 per cent accuracy.

The dystopian machine can recognise dissent against the state and recommend sentences for supposed offenders, pulling people from the prosecution process.

There are already worries the system could be weaponised by the Chinese Communist Party with human prosecutors concerned about who would take accountability for the AI’s findings.

The tool can file a charge based on a verbal description of the case and was created and tested by the Shanghai Pudong People’s Procuratorate, the biggest and busiest district prosecution office in China.

The projects lead scientist Professor Shi Yong said the AI would permit human prosecutors to reduce their workload and allow them to only concentrate on the more complicated cases.

The South China Morning Post said that the system can run on a standard desktop computer and would press charges based on 1,000 markers from the human-generated case description text.

It was trained using 17,000 real-life cases from 2015 to 2020 and is able to recognise and press charges for the eight most typical offences in Shanghai.

These include provoking trouble, a word used to suppress conflict in China, credit card fraud, gambling offences, dangerous driving, theft, fraud, intentional injury and obstructing official duties.

Soon the AI prosecutor will be able to identify more kinds of criminality and file numerous charges against one suspect once it’s upgraded.

Professor Shi Yong said in a paper printed in the Management Review journal that the system could replace prosecutors in the decision making process to a certain degree.

Some AI technology already exists in law enforcement but this would be the first time it’s involved in pressing charges.

In Germany, image recognition and digital forensics are utilised to assist with caseloads, while China uses a device known as System 206 to assess evidence, a suspect’s possible danger and the conditions for the detention, but the system has no part in the decision making process and doesn’t suggest penalties.

One prosecutor in Guangzhou said that he had concerns about the new technology.

He said that the accuracy of 97 per cent might be high from a technological point of view, but there would still be a chance of oversight, and asked who would take accountability when it happens? The prosecutor, the device or the creator of the algorithm?

Any reader familiar with Science Fiction will know where we’re going from here. AI judges, AI Facial Recognition, Chip Implants, Digital Currency Control, and it’s actually no longer fiction because such controls are already in place.

And soon the Social Credit Score system will say that you’ve been a bad boy and now you face the evil AI that can press charges. I mean, what could possibly go wrong?

In the end, you’ll be chained to a conveyor belt whilst the guilty verdicts are given out – all for the sake of efficiency and then you’ll be swiftly transported to your pod cell and appeals will be a thing of the past – doesn’t our future world look bleak?

However, this will only occur and will only work if we comply. Of course, in China, that’s not an option because as a state they will destroy you, but here in the West we must reject any group or movement that wants this, and this certainly isn’t Building Back Better.

I understand that technology has changed our lives, and there is a place for it in our everyday life. However, even as technology has grown we have sent robots to Mars, but there’s no robot that can wash a car better than a human being, and that being the case, how on earth can we allow machines to take over court judgements for humans?

Phew Year’s Eve!

New Year’s Eve is expected to be the warmest on record, forecasters say after regions of Britain saw snow across the Christmas weekend.

The Met Office said that today will see plenty of dry weather in the northern parts of Britain, but the midlands and south are facing extremely wet weather conditions after a somewhat cloudy start.

They warned of a murky and foggy start to the day in England, advising drivers to use their fog lights, not their full beam lights, and to de-mist their windscreen as motorists make long journeys across the country after seeing their families for the holidays.

After a nippy start to the week today, temperatures will remain very mild this week but are set to reach a comfortable 59F (15C) on Friday in parts of England, meaning the country will enjoy similar conditions to those in southern European hotspots like Madrid and Athens.

It will also mean the 2011 record of 58F (14.8C) in Colwyn Bay, North Wales would be broken, making this New Year’s Eve the hottest on record.

A Met Office graphic displayed predictions of 15C in the south, falling to about 13C in the midlands and 10C in the north of Scotland for the last day of 2021. Forecasters said that New Year’s Eve should be drier and slightly brighter than the rest of the week – still extremely mild for many.

It comes after a chilly Boxing Day which saw up to four inches of snow falling on high ground in the early hours with heavy flurries across southern Scotland, Durham, Northumberland, Yorkshire and the Peak District.

The Met Office had declared an official White Christmas after two measuring stations in Scotland registered snowfall on Christmas Day.

One woman was spotted riding a horse in snow-blanketed woods in County Durham, but the blizzards disrupted major roads in the North, including the M62 and A66, which had to be temporarily closed in the morning due to icy conditions.

Some drivers struggled to get going at all after their cars were left concealed in dense snow.

However, the nippy weather was no match for fearless swimmers at Perranporth Beach in Cornwall, and at Ayr, south-west Scotland.

Some sported jolly Santa hats and tinsel as they braved the icy sea.

By yesterday afternoon, much of the snow was melting, the Met Office said, and more temperate air from the Atlantic provided better temperatures than average for this time of the year.

A Restaurant Employee Called Out Of Work After Learning Her Sister Was In A Coma And Dying

A New Mexico woman has shared the horrifying text messages she received from her supervisor after she was called out of work because her sister was lying unconscious in the hospital.

Hillary Zinks received a nightmare phone call last month that her sister had been hospitalised and was declared brain dead, so she immediately drove to Las Vegas to be by her bedside.

But when she informed her supervisor at the restaurant where she works that she wouldn’t be at her next shift, and explained the sad nature of her situation, the supervisor criticised her for giving such little notice, telling her that her fellow workers would have an extremely hard shift because she was missing.

Enraged, Hillary told the woman off and even sent her a photograph of her unconscious sister’s middle finger propped up, before learning from the senior manager days later that the supervisor was no longer employed there.

Hillary is a makeup and effects artist in the film industry but also works as a waitress for extra cash.

In November, she got a call while she was working on the set of a TV series, and discovered that her 40-year-old sister Amber was in a coma, brain dead, could die at any moment, in the hospital.

The reaction from her boss at the TV show was precisely what she would have hoped for, and when her boss found out, Hillary was told to go home and do whatever was needed and be with her family, and that there was no job in the world worth missing life over.

Speaking to BuzzFeed, Hillary explained that her sister was totally unresponsive and the nurses were looking for next of kin to make decisions on her behalf if need be.

She said that she was broken-hearted and frozen and that she didn’t even have time to register all of it before deciding to leave to be with her sister.

On her way to Las Vegas to be with her sister, Hillary sent a text to her supervisor at her restaurant job to inform them that she would be missing from her next shift.

She said that their reaction was extremely cruel.

First, Hillary texted to say she wouldn’t be able to make it to her next shift because she had to drive to Nevada because her sister was dying in the hospital there, and she promised to let the supervisor know when she’d be back and even apologised for the inconvenience.

Her supervisor’s response started off kindly enough and said that they did understand and was sorry for what she was experiencing, but then the supervisor’s words turned sour and it said that she was curious as to why Hillary was letting them know only 2 hours before her shift.

Hillary replied that she had to leave at one in the morning, to which her supervisor first reiterated that she had compassion for her situation but was still not pleased about it.

This is an extremely heartbreaking situation, although Hillary using her sister’s finger to show that she was dying and in the hospital was the very last thing that she should have been doing, but then I guess she was so furious that it was the first thing she thought to do to demonstrate that she wasn’t fibbing about her sister dying.

This kind of private stuff should never be made public and because it has been made public it has made Hillary appear worse than the supervisor in some people’s eyes, although Hillary did get her point across, and the supervisor was a monster, and let it be a lesson for other awful bosses that read what went on and learn from it.

When you’re put in a position where you have to choose your job over a dying loved one it’s never a good situation, and when working in a job that won’t give you time off because your loved one is dying in hospital, then is that a job that you really want, but then do you really want to be unemployed either – it’s the devil and the deep blue sea, but we should also be extremely careful when judging other people because you might one day find yourself walking in their shoes.

Is That A Toilet On A Pink-Tiled Stage?

We all fancied ourselves as a bit of a DIY guru during at least one of the lockdowns, didn’t we?

Well, even if this wasn’t you, these photos show some people most definitely did, and it backfired with quirky design ideas that don’t make any sense.

My Health Gazette shared these outlandish images from all over the world that show the most bizarre home designs, from having a toilet on a pink tiled stage, or a toilet with no door, to stairs that lead to nowhere.

Or even a toilet in the shower? A toilet with a roll that dispenses from the lid? Or a toilet right in the sight of your neighbours? But it doesn’t stop there, one homeowner put a second front door right on top of the one you walk into, two metres above the other.

Here are the most bizarre design choices that beg the question, what on earth were they thinking?

Time and time again these photographs get rolled out, and that hairy staircase, well, I’d be combing it all the time, and extremely unworkable, but typically people have diverse preferences and it’s a great idea that some people are different. I guess it’s better than beige and boring.

I suppose the door on the second floor has a purpose, especially if you live in a country with lots of snowfall – that way you don’t get trapped in your house, although you’d need a big step ladder.

And I’m guessing the bathroom door with all the locks on, is likely to be due to someone wanting to create a safe room where they can retreat in case of intruders or fear of a violent ex hunting them down.

The house that has a small door above the main door looks like it’s from the 1700s or before. It may have been a supply area. They would use a winch to lift hefty items up to that area, rather than schlep them through the house and up a staircase.

Everyone has their own style. It might not be everyone’s taste, but who are we to criticise someone’s else’s home? And it’s lovely to see people living in their homes and not just treating it like something that needs to be sold one day.

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