How low ARE the UK breastfeeding rates anyway?

[wendykh]

OMG FRONT PAGE NEWS, MOM NURSES 3 AND 5 YEAR OLD!

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-1025655/Mummy-milk-The-mother-insists-breastfeeding-children-aged-FIVE-THREE.html

I kept reading the article over and over, wondering if I was missing something, expecting to see that they were consuming nothing BUT breastmilk...

Is this seriously what passes for news in England? I mean I know it's not called the Daily Fail for nothing, but srsly now...

BTW What do you think about moms who out themselves like that? I am pretty open to discussing it with my friends and people I know, but something about putting my kid on a national newspaper and saying "LOOK, HE STILL NURSES!" seems a bit... well like I'm choosing to out him or something? It doesn't sit right with me. Yes I know, normalize it, blah blah. Wouldn't normalizing it be not consenting to being in the paper since "why on earth would you want to do that? It's perfectly normal."

Comments

[angelpez.livejournal.com]

I wouldn't put myself in the paper, but I definitely think she should be very proud of herself. Nursing through pregnancy alone is hard! Audrey was 22 months when she weaned and I was around 7 months pregnant. I was getting to the point where I wanted to rip my hair out when she nursed. Maybe not all women feel that irritation when they are pregnant and nursing though. Who knows. Sorry I was just rambling!

Anyways..as long as we can get mothers to at least nurse for the 1st year I'll be happy!

[wendykh.livejournal.com]

Oh I think she should be proud, definitely. One reason I know this will extremely likely be my last pregnancy is I have absolutely no desire to nurse during pregnancy at all. I'm just surprised a newspaper would consider it something to put in a national newspaper Strange.

[anna-lise-a.livejournal.com]

Fwiw, the Daily Mail isn't a serious paper, it's a rag.

The woman in the article was also featured in the London Paper (free paper that they give out at the train stations; people at work were discussing her. A colleague of mine (just come back to work after mat. leave; still nursing her one-year-old) brought one into work; she was pretty horrified by the article.

[wendykh.livejournal.com]

I'm quite bothered by the freakshow angle.