Heather wrote;
> Sorry, Pam, I'll throw in a UK perspective here. In the 50 and 60s,
> most UK women who delivered in hospitals were ordered to bf. > > Most of
them ended up bottle feeding within a short time....

Heather, there must have been variations round the UK.  From UK cousins and
acquaintances, who delivered in the West Country (Devon) and Portsmouth in
the mid- to late1960s, "how are you girls going to feed?" meant "which
brand?"  One acquaintance was the only breastfeeding mother in a large
teaching hospital and she told me the students had to see her, while there
was a BF mother there.  Neither of my cousins breastfed their children.  It
wasn't fashionable.  (I can quite see why, with the failure of breastfeeding
for the generation or two who were subjected to the regimen of restricted
feeeds and crying babies.)  Looking at an Oxford survey, published in the
BMJ in 1953, even then there didn't appear to be a lot of breastfeeding
beyond the very early stages, in that locality, and attitudes in the report
(and ensuing correspondence) were not positive.
    I guess that in any country, there are regional variations.
        Virginia

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