Do you know where breastfeeding statistics are gathered from?

[peachsmuggler]

Just out of curiosity really. Reason I ask is went for 8 month assesment this week and mentioned I was still bf but the HV never wrote it in the red book, even though there is a box to tick for it. Guess this is not where the stats come from, is it more surveys they take from people?? Have you ever been surveyed?

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Breastfeeding statistics are collected by the NHS at birth and at the 6/8 week check.

Local Primary Care Trusts may collect data after this age if they want to, but I doubt many do as it's not required of them.

Any figures quoted after 6-8 weeks of age are estimates based on the infant feeding survey which was last done in 2005.

www.ic.nhs.uk/pubs/breastfeed2005

Link to infant feeding survey if anyone's interested.

Thanks!