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% of women who bf past a year

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minicc · 21/11/2012 18:14

My sister sent me a link to a Bbc news article re:bf rates in the uk. (she also said how special I am to have ebf for 6 months let alone feeding at all at just over a year) Anywhoo, does anyone know what % of women still feed at 1yr? No agenda, just curious. Thanks

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Svrider · 21/11/2012 18:15

I did
Stopped at around 17months (eventually)

naturalbaby · 21/11/2012 18:18

I don't know but me too, with all 2 out of 3 dc's.

TerrariaMum · 21/11/2012 18:21

Don't know percentage, but I would be in it as am still feeding DD (23 mo)

CaseyShraeger · 21/11/2012 18:24

Not sure, but it'll be tiny.

PeggyCarter · 21/11/2012 18:27

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PogoBob · 21/11/2012 18:40

I suspect there aren't any stats available on it to be honest.

I'm in there at 27 months (slightly unwillingly at the moment as 35 pregnant with very sensitive nipples!) and I know a few other mothers who are still feeding children of a similar age to DD but very few.

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BertieBotts · 21/11/2012 18:54

Less than 1%, I believe.

The infant feeding survey from 2010 hasn't been published yet so the 2005 figures are the most up to date.

BertieBotts · 21/11/2012 18:54

Ooh, the 2010 survey is out!

BertieBotts · 21/11/2012 19:00

34% at 6 months according to 2010 infant survey. Looks like they didn't collect data for older babies, unfortunately.

MikeOxard · 21/11/2012 19:08

Me too! Dd self-weaned at 22 months.

poppy283 · 21/11/2012 19:13

Aren't the stats at 6 months for exclusive bfing? I.e. babies that haven't had any solids yet.

I suppose it's hard to gather this info past the time when you're seeing the hv regularly.

Anyway, still feeding Dd at 27 months here (and ds at 3 months!)

pickledparsnip · 21/11/2012 19:15

Still going at 3 years! Slowly weaning though...not entirely sure I can wait until my son self weans.

BertieBotts · 21/11/2012 19:23

No the 34 percent (why don't I have that symbol on my phone?) is for any breastfeeding. Pretty good :-) it was only 25 percent 7 years ago.

dontcallmehon · 21/11/2012 19:24

I bf dd till she was 3 and ds till the age of 2. Doubt that there are many of us though.

RooneyMara · 21/11/2012 19:26

I've no idea.

There seem to be quite a lot of us though, which is nice, and surprises me...I fed ds2 till he was 4 and a half, and started school.

BertieBotts · 21/11/2012 19:26

Exclusive breastfeeding at 6 months must be pretty rare, even following guidelines most people don't wait until after 6 months to introduce solids.

RooneyMara · 21/11/2012 19:38

Oh God I did. I hated the idea of making food for my children, knowing it would end up all over the floor/ceiling/walls.

I mean I did start around then, but I wasn't in a hurry - they both BF more than anything else till at least a year.

ElphabaTheGreen · 21/11/2012 20:06

I didn't start weaning earnest until DS's 26 week birthday on Sunday. I started giving him some soft carrot sticks and bits of fruit to destroy and hurl at the dogs play with about a week and a half ago but the two minuscule lumps of carrot which made the journey through to his nappy weren't enough for me to think I needed to count myself out of the 1% of EBFers at 6 months.

Mathsdidi · 21/11/2012 20:13

I'm still here at 2 yrs 7 months. I was one of the respondents in the 2010 survey and am one of the 1% ebf at 6 months . I really couldn't be faffed with the puree mess that I went through with dd1 so we did BLW and she just wasn't interested in eating the food she was playing with until after her 6 month birthday.

Mama1980 · 21/11/2012 20:16

I bfed my ds until he was 3 1/2 he was ebf until he was 6 months. No idea of official figures though sorry.

messtins · 22/11/2012 12:56

You are special minicc and you are doing a great job - you can be proud to be a paid up member of the club we affectionately call "toddler feeding weirdos". I fed both of mine past a year (16 and 25 months). I don't think babies still being breastfed at a year is included in any official figures, which is surprising given that the WHO recommendation is 2 yrs. I suspect they know the figure is very low and will make it look like they are doing a crap job. 34% having some breastmilk at 6 months old (includes babies who also have formula and who are on solids) was quite encouraging, I thought! The 1% is for babies who are exclusively BF at 6 months, so excludes babies who started solids at 25 weeks and 6 days...

Mibby · 22/11/2012 13:03

Still going at 24.5 months here

givemeaclue · 22/11/2012 13:05

I read the article it is one per cent

OrangeMochaFrappucino · 22/11/2012 13:06

I breastfed til 14 months but wouldn't appear in any survey as nobody ever asked me. My health visiting team sort of itsuggested that if I had no problems then I didn't need to see them so when I stopped taking him to be weighed (probably around 5/6 months) I didn't see them again and wasn't offered a one year check. I wasn't asked about breastfeeding at his vaccinations either. So how do we know the surveys are accurate, I wonder?