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Data suggests 60 per cent of babies aren't breastfed after 6 weeks

24 October 2018

Guidelines recommend breastfeeding for 6 months, but data suggests that less than half of mothers in England choose or are able to breastfeed beyond six weeks

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Data suggests 60 per cent of babies aren't breastfed after 6 weeks

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