{"id":121755,"date":"2025-11-04T18:50:10","date_gmt":"2025-11-04T18:50:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/121755\/"},"modified":"2025-11-04T18:50:10","modified_gmt":"2025-11-04T18:50:10","slug":"tanya-sweeney-cardi-b-is-right-it-doesnt-matter-if-its-breast-or-bottle-just-feed-your-baby","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/121755\/","title":{"rendered":"Tanya Sweeney: Cardi B is right \u2013 it doesn\u2019t matter if it\u2019s breast or bottle, just feed your baby"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-91174671_secondary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom4 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop4\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\" data-testid=\"title-summary\">The US rapper has been advocating for formula feeding \u2013 and six years after having my baby, I don\u2019t feel an ounce of guilt about my own decision to reach for the bottle\n<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Cardi B, who is pregnant with her fourth child, pictured in October. Photo: Amy Sussman\/Getty\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/tyImages_2240218944.jpg\" loading=\"eager\" width=\"100%\" data-testid=\"article-image\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_caption1 indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_secondary indo-66f0fec7_regular indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_marginleft0 indo-1d70522a_marginright0 indo-1d70522a_margintop3 indo-b48c4984_left\" style=\"color:var(--color-grey-60)\">Cardi B, who is pregnant with her fourth child, pictured in October. Photo: Amy Sussman\/Getty<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">As birthdays go, it was an unusual one: I spent the afternoon of my 42nd birthday in a breastfeeding workshop in a Dublin maternity hospital. Of the dozen or so of us there, we were keen to learn the ropes, having heard rumours that breastfeeding might prove to be a challenge.<\/p>\n<p class=\"indo-ebe0ecc6_root indo-ebe0ecc6_paragraph indo-300db776_none indo-91174671_primary indo-1d70522a_marginbottom0 indo-1d70522a_margintop0 indo-b48c4984_inherit\" style=\"color:var(--color-primary-80)\">By then, I was a woman of myriad accomplishments. How hard could this be? The consultant looked at me admiringly as I held my test baby \u2013 an inanimate doll \u2013 in a rugby hold. \u201cWow, you\u2019re a natural,\u201d she cooed. \u201cYou got this!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The US rapper has been advocating for formula feeding \u2013 and six years after having my baby, I&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":121756,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[321,93,61,60,12271],"class_list":["post-121755","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-tanya-sweeney"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121755","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121755"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121755\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/121756"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121755"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121755"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121755"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}