In a number of cases, women who live near incinerators were told not to breast-feed their babies because of the amount of dioxins in their breast milk.
Many women will not want to breast-feed in public, because it makes them feel uncomfortable.
I ask every woman in the ward whether they propose to continue to breast-feed, and three out of four say that they do.
She experienced some initial difficulty and in hospital she was discouraged from continuing to breast-feed after her first attempt.
Without cooking facilities, she could but breast-feed her baby.
Although there is some dispute as to the exact percentage of women who are unable to breast-feed, it is very low.
Many women prefer to feed their babies with infant formula rather than breast-feed them.
Is it not strange, therefore, that so few women apparently choose to breast-feed?
