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Incidence of breastfeeding

 

Source: Infant Feeding Survey – UK, 2010

Notes:

  • Incidence of breastfeeding is defined as the proportion of babies who were breastfed initially. This includes all babies who were put to the breast at all, even if this was on one occasion only. It also includes giving expressed breastmilk to the baby.

 

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