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“My Supermodel Baby” BBC1 Reviewed

My Supermodel Baby on BBC1 aired to audiences worldwide and via the iPlayer. The show delivered on reality and if nothing could or should be drawn from the viewing experience, baby modelling is for fun, not profit.

All mums and dads think their babies are beautiful, (All babies are beautiful) however gracing the cover of Mother and Baby Magazine or starring in a TV campaign isn’t open to all and professional judgement is clearly best left to the professionals.

A multi-million pound industry appears to cascade little to the babies trust funds. However agencies willing to take, “administration fees” are a plenty and those that actually enable bookings are rare. One of the more sophisticated methods of leveraging large amounts of money from overly excited new parents was mentioned, the £25 photoshoot that turns into thousands of pounds via the Venture franchise.

My Supermodel Baby followed three parents who thought their babies had what it took to become baby supermodels, humble though they appeared.

Eight-month-old Frankie was the apple in his mothers eyes, Jamie and Kelly. He manages to attract the attention of Mother and Baby Magazine editor Miranda Levy and gets a front page shoot.

In Huddersfield, unemployed dad Matt was, “Happy” to see his nine-month-old triplets featured in a Littlewoods catalogue.

Over in London, adorable Esther believes her baby Hadley could easiliy be on the front of a magazine. In fact, it’s her dream, (And it came true).

Gushy parents, cute babies, and the harsh reality of the modelling work equals great TV. Dissapointing was that Photoshop apparently needs to iron out the wrinkles of even a six-month-old baby, so heaven help the rest of us.

         

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Majority of Women In UK Too Shy To Breastfeed In Public

A new survey released in the UK has revealed that two thirds of women are too shy to breastfeed in public and feel that the UK is not breastfeeding-friendly for women.

Doctors always market breastfeeding as the best possible choice for a baby, but it appears that the majority of women in the UK are too self-conscious to breastfeed their babies. According to a new study, 60 percent of mothers in the UK do not think that the people of the country are breastfeeding-friendly. To go along with that, 65 percent of women say that they would never try breastfeeding because they are concerned about people staring at them.

Of the women who were surveyed who did breastfeed their babies, more than half of them reported that they were asked to leave public places such as cafes. They were forced to breastfeed their baby in a toilet or their car rather than a public place.

The research did reveal some specific regional differences in the results. Places like London came out as the most comfortable for women and breastfeeding. The North West and the West Midlands were the least accepting of breastfeeding in public.

The poll also found out that over 65 percent of the women surveyed said that they would try breastfeeding if it was more widely acceptable in public.

Miranda Levy, the editor of Mother and Baby magazine, who performed this survey, says “Breastfeeding is a wonderful, unique time in a new mum’s life and rightly needs to be celebrated. However, Mother & Baby’s research has confirmed what we always suspected, that Britain needs to be more friendly to breastfeeding mothers. Every mum we questioned understood the health benefits of breastfeeding, but a huge percentage were put off even trying because of the fear of people staring.”