Not all mothers can breastfeed, and many need support to do so | Letters

Lisa Robinson says she was unable to breastfeed her child and Dr Claire Ingham adds that breastfeeding is a learned skill that western women are poorly taught

I read your article stating that England’s low breastfeeding rates were due to advice going unheeded (Report, 25 October) and, as a mother who didn’t breastfeed, I wanted to respond.

I did not just heed the advice to breastfeed, I pored over it. Even now, more than a decade later, I can recall with absolute clarity a vision of my younger self excitedly reading pregnancy books. I devoured the passages on the benefits of breastfeeding.

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