UK is not the world's worst at breastfeeding
Published on Monday, 23 May 2016 Post
A letter published in the Lancet by NPEU researchers Maria Quigley and Claire Carson shows that around 1 in 10 UK women are still breastfeeding when their baby is 12 months old. This estimate is based on a UK study of 14,848 women who gave birth in 2000-2001 and then answered questions about infant feeding when their baby was 9 months old and again at 5 years. Corroborated with data from the last three UK Infant Feeding Surveys, their estimate of 1 in 10 contrasts with a recent report which suggested that only 1 in 200 UK women are still breastfeeding at 12 months.
