It is quite shocking to find out that most of the developed countries have the lowest breastfeeding rates while those less developed countries have higher breastfeeding rates.
Factors that contribute to this statistic is due to the norm. Breastfeeding is more of a normal thing to do for mothers that to provide formula. In addition formula is not readily available in this countries.
Also in less developed countries such as Africa breastfeeding rate can be as high as 98%. In fact it is a normal thing to breastfeed your toddler in these countries.
For instance, UK has the lowest breastfeeding rate in the world. In fact 36% of moms there breastfeeds for up to 6 months and almost none when the baby reaches 1 year old. This is quite surprising knowing that their maternity leave is longer than the US compared.
In a study 90% of women said they wanted to breastfeed their baby, however this number drops to 45% actualy women who breasteed their babies during the first few days and the other half formula fed. This may ba attributed to lack of support and challenges about breasteeding to these moms.
Breastfeeding in public, mothers being forced by society to go back to being themselves before the pregnancy and lack of support contribute to moms not being successful in their breastfeeding journey.
It is important to educate, support and advocate the importance of breastfeeding. Only a small percentage of moms would actually have issues resulting to not breastfeeding but some of them actually just lack of support.
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