The UK has a breastfeeding rate at 12 months of 0.5% apparently - worst in the world.

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Whereas 99.4% of women in Senegal, where there is widespread poverty, double the UK average family size, no maternity leave and minimal medical or midwifery support for postnatal mothers, are still going.

Those statistics are mind-boggling, given that most of the 82% of women who start off breastfeeding in the UK state medical reasons for not being able to continue breastfeeding.

Does beg the question - how is this possible?

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I'm curious - Do you plan to stop at breastfeeding, or would you like to force mothers into other practices that are beneficial to their babies and banned from practices that are potentially harmful?

Should it be illegal to sell or serve alcohol to pregnant women? (Or even women with babies, since you want to force them all to breastfeed for 12 months)

No I would stop at breastfeeding in my evil plans to take over the world.

Adele maybe you think I should be prosecuted for putting my baby in their own room before months - increased risk after all!

Why stop at breastfeeding though? Your logic should be to force people to make the "best" choices shouldn't it.

I don't care what you did with your baby cats. It's not important to me at all

"saying people will start wearing earlier for no reason other than she thinks it might happen is there?"

The reason is that you just banned formula.

You might be successful in forcing some women to breastfeed because they can't get formula, but many others will feed their babies cow's milk and/or wean earlier.

I'm still waiting for proof of your conviction that "People don't do that in Norway".

How do you know?

But in a different society where BF was the norm why would you resent your children for having the feed them? You wouldn't give it a thought it would just be the way things are. You wouldn't know any different.

But we are not in a different society and we do know different.

Adele you'd still know formula existed though.

Why do you want to FORCE and?

I'm referring to my own experiences. My sister lives there and has 3 children. Now how do you know people in Norway start weaning their children earlier because they can't get formula?

Bf not and

I only care about BF at a population level, as the OP has continually said she does also. I don't care what you did with your baby. Crack on.

Don't understand any of your posts cats

What don't you understand?

If you lived in a society where bf was normal you'd still know that formula existed. You can't erase the knowledge. So you still might feel crap about bfing if you didn't want to do it.

Why do you care about bfing at a population level? Why do you wish to force people to bf?

I would have hated to be made to be forced to bf even thinking about it makes me feel sick I hated it so much with my first.

On another note it's weird I never fed my boys and my milk never came in but now 5yrs on I'm having to wear breast pads as I have a tumour on my pituitary gland that has caused me to start producing it. Maybe it's like some sort of punishment for not bfing

I only discovered when having dd2 that I was down as bf

I don't understand your posts that just consist of a few random words.

No one is saying this will happen tomorrow. It's taken 30,40 years in Norway. Your grandchildren might all be BF and your daughter/ DILs might not give formula a thought.

So your sister has three children in Norway and that means you know that nobody in Norway weans early or gives cow's milk to their babies?

I live in France and have two children, so I know what everyone in France does with their babies

20% of 6-month-old babies are not breastfed at all in Norway. What do you think is in their bottles if formula can only be obtained on prescription? Are 20% of all babies between 6-12 months of age on prescription formula?

Fasting your milk often won't come in if you don't BF. The baby hasn't stimulated the supply.

Adele I was correcting a typo sorry.

Yes but they would still know about it. I know about things that exist in other cultures that don't here.

Again why do you care? And why breastfeeding but not other things that are a risk?