Breastfeeding Statistics 2025 - but what do they mean?
This week marked National Breastfeeding week and it was a great opportunity to meet other breastfeeding counsellors, IBCLCs breastfeeding mothers, midwives, PHNs and policy makers.
The week started with the release of breastfeeding figures for the year 2025. As happened last year, the figures for exclusive breastfeeding on discharge from hospital were not issued, instead the data issued were “any” breastfeeding. The media ran with “any breastfeeding” as if it denoted exclusive breastfeeding.
This podcast looks at what this masking and massaging of data means for mothers and also for those that are predatorially marketing alternative feeding products to mothers.
Breastfeeding and infant feeding are a corner stone of my Comprehensive doula training when we look at the postnatal and also changes in the pregnant body. If you are interested in joining this year’s training running from October 2026 to October 2027 then click the link below:
https://www.dublindoula.com/doula-training-course-with-krysia-lynch