Heather, you said:
"Our next stats will be out next year.
They're pretty reliable stats, and come from impeccable academic research."

I was surprised to see this -- in what sense are these impeccable academic
research?  They come from the government and they cover a large sample, but
some of the questions they don't ask.....and in  'Infant Feeding and Asian
Families'  -- a similar publication but done only once, they showed some
incredible basic ignorance of practice in the communities they were looking
at.  I suppose it comes down to what 'impeccable academic research' is.  A
24 hour recall on 'exclusive' breastfeeding should be starting to seem
woefully inadequate.  I have always wondered who the authors of the reports
are -- I never hear of them in any other bf context, so always assumed that
they are stats bods.  Maybe you mean the stats is impeccable academic stuff?

BTW, I am not faulting them for what they are, but they are govt stats and
tell a certain story.  I pore over them for five years willing them to tell
me more....

Magda Sachs
Breastfeedign Supporter, BfN, UK

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