Partners back breastfeeding

What do husbands think of their wives breastfeeding? Sue Leonard talks to George Foxe and Eamonn Lawlor, who are two enthusiastic supporters.

THANKS to active support groups, there are women in Ireland who embrace breastfeeding wholeheartedly. So enthusiastically, in fact, that they breastfeed their children until they self wean. And this might happen at two, at four, or even older than that.

What though, do their husbands make of this practice? Especially in Ireland, which is still, largely, a bottle feeding culture. Jolene Keating, of www.friendsof breastfeeding.ie says that it’s something that creeps up, rather than something that’s planned.