Chrissy Teigen hits the bottle – VG

In multiple Twitter posts, the supermodel mentions that not everyone can breastfeed and that all you hear as a new and concerned mom is that breasts are better.

– Ok, I’ll tell you something and you will definitely all make a case, but here it comes: normalize the breast milk substitute, the supermodel writes on Twitter, a message that on Sunday night is equal to 91,000 times.

The mother of two has received a lot of attention in recent years for her outspoken style on social media. Ever since she and her husband had their first daughter, Luna Simone Stephens (4) and son Miles (2), she has been open about the fact that young children’s lives are not always a dance of roses.

– Normalize the breast milk substitute

– “Normalize breastfeeding” is great. “Standard infant formula” is great too! So yeah, that’s it! Normalize infant formula! Your baby will be BEAUTIFUL, PERFECT and OK, writes Chrissy Teigen (34) on Twitter, where she has 13.5 million followers.

Also, she writes that she doesn’t know exactly why this is her crusade at the moment, but that she remembers the sadness she felt and that she wants mothers to know that if the child has been given food, then they have done the right thing.

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– I remember pumping myself as hard and often as I could because I didn’t trust children to actually get milk when I breastfed them. It drove me crazy that it only had 28 milliliters. 28 milliliters!

Earlier this fall, it emerged that Teigen (34) and her husband John Legend (41) lost a child mid-pregnancy.

NRK host Live Nelvik says she encourages Chrissy Teigen to point out that not everyone can breastfeed and that children do perfectly well even if they get their food from a bottle.

– Bottle model

– It is not that I am against breastfeeding, but for those who do not obtain it, there is no alternative. I would like to be a role model, says Nelvik (37) to VG.

Nelvik himself has not breastfed any of his three children. She just didn’t fix it.

NRK’s ​​profile has in a VG column written about how she experienced the pressure of breastfeeding when she first became a mother and how her husband finally suggested that they give the daughter a bottle.

Then she had tried for a long time to express a few drops of milk without success at the same time that the baby was getting hungrier and hungrier, and the new mother became more and more frustrated.

– New mothers especially hurt me. You get a different confidence in yourself if you have more children, says Nelvik.

When she had children of two and three years old, she insisted that they receive breast milk substitute, she knew that otherwise they would not receive food as she could not breastfeed.

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– Kids bottle everywhere

– In the maternity hotel they didn’t even have bottles as an alternative. It was only when I said in shock that my husband was going to say it, that the nurse many hours later came with some bottles that he “accidentally found,” says Nelvik.

– The propaganda is that they give you sick children without antibodies and that only someone sneezes on them, you have to put a respirator on them. But that’s not true. Of my three children, only one has had a daughter in cure with antibiotics in gang.

Linda Granlund, The director of the division of public health and prevention in the Norwegian Health Directorate, wrote in a column in VG two years ago that the research clearly shows that children who are breastfed are healthier than children who receive milk substitutes maternal, also in high-income countries like Norway. And that children who are breastfed have fewer infections and a lower risk of sudden death.

Nelvik believes that what she calls propaganda about breastfeeding in Norway is completely unnecessary and heartbreaking.

– If you look up and you look at Europe, bottle-fed children grow up everywhere. They finish primary school even if they get nan and no puppy. Some even earn a master’s degree.