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**Chris** · 12-11-2013, 17:31

It is of course impossibly difficult to sit in front of a computer and assess how hard someone else found breast feeding, or whether someone else's baby was failing to thrive until being fed formula.

All I can do is point to the general statistics, which is that the number of babies that cannot breast feed, due to some medical problem with either the baby or the mother, is very low.

Primary lactation failure (mother can't produce enough milk and there is no cure) occurs in just 4% of cases. Secondary lactation failure accounts for a further 11%, but in those cases it can often be corrected, as it will have been caused by poor diet, or poor technique on the part of mother or baby.

Yet (in the US at least, and I think UK stats are similar), fewer than 14% of mothers are still breast feeding at 6 months. If the number of mothers physically able to breast feed for six months was anywhere near that low, the human race would have been extinct millennia ago.

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Chris Trollsplatter Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: North of Watford Services: Humane elimination of all common Internet pests Posts: 38,083	Re: Women have a choice It is of course impossibly difficult to sit in front of a computer and assess how hard someone else found breast feeding, or whether someone else's baby was failing to thrive until being fed formula. All I can do is point to the general statistics, which is that the number of babies that cannot breast feed, due to some medical problem with either the baby or the mother, is very low. Primary lactation failure (mother can't produce enough milk and there is no cure) occurs in just 4% of cases. Secondary lactation failure accounts for a further 11%, but in those cases it can often be corrected, as it will have been caused by poor diet, or poor technique on the part of mother or baby. Yet (in the US at least, and I think UK stats are similar), fewer than 14% of mothers are still breast feeding at 6 months. If the number of mothers physically able to breast feed for six months was anywhere near that low, the human race would have been extinct millennia ago.