A recent Dutch study showed that a bit more than three quarters of new moms start breastfeeding, half of them stop within the first month, only 22% of 3 month old still breastfeed. Reasons moms gave in this study were lack of sufficient milk supply; lack of sufficiant and adequate professional support and (for the ones stopping towards 3 mnths pp) returning to work. This study worked out very well on the minister of health who ordered the (Semi governmental) Centre for Food to launch a breastfeeding promotion programm right away. Warmly greeting, Gonneke ================== Gonneke van Veldhuizen =+= IBCLC, LLLL, MOM =+= primairy school teacher EUROLAC breastfeeding information centre and lactation consultant practice http://www.users.skynet.be/eurolac *********************************************** The LACTNET mailing list is powered by L-Soft's renowned LISTSERV(R) list management software together with L-Soft's LSMTP(TM) mailer for lightning fast mail delivery. For more information, go to: http://www.lsoft.com/LISTSERV-powered.html