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Woman's Hour

Your experience of feeding your baby.

Woman's Hour

BBC

Society & Culture

4.13K Ratings

🗓️ 29 January 2019

⏱️ 48 minutes

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Summary

We reveal the results of the survey we commissioned, together with BBC Radio Sheffield, to discover how, in the 21st century women are feeding their babies. We asked Comres to carry out the research. More than a thousand women took part. They were all between 18 and 40 in the UK and had had a baby in the past decade. To analyse the findings Dr Ellie Cannon, a GP and author of Keep Calm: The New Mum’s Manual. Shereen Fisher the chief executive of the Breastfeeding Network and Gill Diskin a maternity Matron at Liverpool Women's NHS Foundation .

Presenter Jenni Murray Producer Beverley Purcell

Transcript

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0:00.0

Choosing what to watch night after night the flicking through the endless

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searching is a nightmare we want to help you on our brand new podcast off the

0:11.8

telly we share what we've been watching

0:14.0

Fladiated.

0:16.0

Load to games, loads of fun, loads of screaming.

0:19.0

Lovely. Off the telly with me Joanna Paige.

0:21.0

And me, Natalie Cassidy, so your evenings can be a little less

0:25.0

searching and a lot more auction listen on BBC Sounds.

0:30.0

BBC Sounds music radio podcasts.

0:34.4

Hello Jenny Murray welcoming you to Tuesday's edition of the Women's Our Podcast.

0:39.8

Now today we reveal the results of the survey we commissioned together with radio Today we

0:43.0

commissioned, together with Radio Sheffield, to discover how in the 21st century

0:48.0

women are feeding their babies.

0:50.0

We asked Comres to carry out the research. More than a thousand women took part. They were all between 18 and 40 in the UK and that had had a baby in the past decade.

1:01.0

To analyse the findings, I'm joined by Dr.

1:04.4

Ellie Cannon, a GP and the author of Keep Calm, the new mum's manual.

1:10.0

Charine Fisher, chief executive of the Breastfeeding Network, who joined us from Birmingham,

1:16.4

and Jill Diskin, a maternity matron at Liverpool Women's Hospital, who of course joined us from Liverpool and we were to have been joined by Jade

1:26.7

Edwards who spoke to us as someone who was 18 in 2018 and has a son who's nearly four and a baby of eight weeks.

1:35.3

Unfortunately both Jade and the baby were not very well this morning.

1:40.5

So Jade if you're listening I hope soon you will both be better and really

1:46.2

sorry you couldn't join us now the results of the survey have made it clear that

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