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Breastfeeding Facts Did You Know These BreastFeeding Facts? • 90% of the world's mothers breastfeed! • The western world has the lowest rates and the UK is lower still! • Extended families are less common, so the skills required to succeed are harder to learn.   Article continues below advertisement   • Fear of failure often leads women to formula feed. • If this trend is to be reversed, then early education is vital. • You can succeed whatever the size of your breasts! • Breastfeeding will not ruin the shape of your breasts in the future. Once you have finished feeding, they will return to approximately their pre-pregnant size! • Inverted or flat nipples need not be a problem and many women breastfeed successfully with little or no help. • The World Health Organisation (WHO) recommend that you should exclusively breastfeed for a minimum of six months, with continued feeding for two years and beyond. But why stop there? • You can continue to feed your toddler even if you are pregnant with another baby! • If you exclusively breastfeed, then your periods may not return for up to a year! This is nature's way of making the natural, and therefore safer, gap between children longer. This benefits both mother and infant. However, breastfeeding should not be relied upon as a method of contraception. © Sharon Trotter Back to Breastfeeding   Where to now? Melissa Tells us about her Thrupenny Bits. A Great Time for All Ages to be had at Center Parcs Chat and make friends on our SmallTalk Forum   ◄back top▲ next►