Restaurants back breastfeeding plan

MORE than 100 restaurants and cafes are backing an initiative to support breastfeeding mothers.

The Health Promotion Unit of the Department of Health and Children wrote to 476 members of the Restaurants Association of Ireland inviting them to take part in their Babies Who Lunch campaign.

So far, 105 restaurants and cafes have agreed to support the initiative by having a public customer policy of welcoming breastfeeding mothers and facilitating them to feed their babies. The unit’s national breastfeeding co-ordinator, Maureen Fallon, said they hoped that more restaurants and cafés would come forward and support the initiative to make breastfeeding easier.