Eileen,
 Thanks for the information and for your insights. Things
are always more complicated than a simple statistic would
indicate.


>An Irish online health magazine recently carried out a breastfeeding =
>survey of their 43,000+ subscribers.  Of those that replied it found =
>that 81% favoured breastfeeding.  16% favoured bottle-feeding and 3% =
>were undecided.  This survey can be accessed at www.irishhealth.com.  =
>Type in "breastfeeding" in the search area and you will find out details =
>of this survey
Not a terribly scientific study. While 43,000 people may have received the
survey or notice of it in some form, there is no indication how many
people
actually responded and whether those who responded were in any way
representative
of the magazine's subscribers, much less the Irish people.

>On this website you will also find details of a survey carried out by =
>Cuidiu - The Irish Childbirth Trust in 1999.  The survey covered 24 =
>maternity hospital and units nationwide.  This survey found that many of =
>our Irish Maternity Hospital/Units failed to meet our National =
>Breastfeeding Targets for 1994.
This study appears to have been done a bit more scientifically with an
excellent response rate (100%)

Naomi Bar-Yam

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