World Breastfeeding Week is about awareness and education. The theme for 2012 is “Understanding the Past — Planning the Future” as well as commemorating 10 years of WHO/UNICEF’s Global Strategy for Infant and young child health. Breastfeeding seems an obvious choice when we consider how amazing breast…
Or so it seems………. Australian breastfeeding rates are among the lowest in the world. An article in the Adelaide Advertiser reported that although 92% of women try to breastfeed only half make it to three months and only 14% to six months. “These low breastfeeding…