Surprised at this.. Common or not?

[NutterlyUts]

I went to a mum and baby group last week and was surprised to see that out of 9 of them, 7 were breast feeding, 2 past 6months. I thought this was quite unusual but tbh, my experience of baby groups before this was nil. I thought the uptake of breastfeeding was a lot lower?


Disclaimer I don't want this to turn into a fight, am just curious as to how common this sort of divide is as I thought FF was a lot more common (not judging, just making an observation)

[colditz]

Depends where you are. If you arein surrey, quite normal, but in Glasgow, very unusual.

[moljam]

where i am breast feeding is more common i think.im one of very few who was unable too!

[Bouj]

with ds1 i was the only one out of 10 who was bottle feeding. with ds2, I am the only one out of 4 who are breastfeeding.

[NutterlyUts]

This was bournemouth

[SoupDragon]

I would say it was fairly unusual. It does depend on the area - just which small area the baby group is in can make a huge difference.

[3andnomore]

I would agree, it depends where you are, when I went to a M&T group near Melton Mowbray I was definately not the only one bf past 6 month, then we moved to Corby, and well, there is hardly any Breastfeeders around, and certianly even rarer once Baby is a few weeks old....!

[Twiglett]

in London I think its more common to bf than not

[FrayedKnot]

I only know one person who decided to FF both her children from birth.

Everyone else I can think of from post natal groups, NCT, friends & family, have attempted to BF, and wanted to BF...whether they made it past the first couple of days is another story.

Does uptake mean who starts off BF or who continues successfully?