70% of mums have felt pressure to stop breastfeeding.

Back in August I wrote the post "Guilt If You Breastfeed, Guilt If You Don't" - we hear a lot in the media about the "Breastfeeding Mafia" and how mums are feeling this overwhelming pressure to breastfeed and being "guilt tripped" if they touch breastmilk substitutes.  Now to me, given only 4% of infants are exclusively breastfed at 6 months - it doesn't leave very many people to create this all powerful mafia bringing 96% of mothers to their knees!  I personally think most of us are perfectly capable of guilt tripping ourselves when we read something that worries us, but anyway.  My feelings are that something very rarely acknowledged is the pressure a breastfeeding mother may face for not introducing a bottle or swapping entirely (as discussed in the article above) so I decided to run a poll:

Have you ever felt pressure to stop breastfeeding, or guilt for continuing?

Since August exactly 800 people ticked yes or no to the above question.

The Results:

70% Yes

30% No

Betcha don't read about that in the the mainstream media anytimes soon...