I think the point is what kid really wants a photo of himself sucking on his mothers tit on a global publication.

A few other points.

There is an action and re-action going on with facets as below.

1. There is a 'breast is best' chanting, tree hugging, sap spitting, midwiffery cult of the breast, we are women 'birth rape' shouting type movement that acts as if you're some sort of child abuser if you don't breast feed, or else you're a victim of the patriarchy's sexualisation of breasts.

2. Mothers are having children older and it seems harder for a lot of women to breast feed, no matter how much so called 'support' is available. Point 1 just adds so much pressure and is massively counter-productive. These mothers need the above group like a hole in the head.

3. There is a view that with more of this 'support' from above all would be dandy, and we would have a wonderful world of children apparently more intelligent and immune to everything.

4. Any fool knows it would be much easier for anyone to breastfeed than paying $20 a week for formula. If it works. But you have to look at the whole family, other children in it, the mother's emotional state and post-natal depression, that baby's weight. All sorts of things.

5. No matter how hard a man tries to support a partner, he is either not supporting her choice to breast feed (Being an evil patriarch) when he suggests she just use a bottle because mother and baby are very unhappy, or else he is pushing her through all sorts of pain and he should just butt out because he's only a man what would he know it's secret women's business.

Thankfully I survived No5 I think quite majestically, pissing off lots of the No1s, and asserted some common sense into the situation.

Breast IS best, but breast feeding is not some integral part of your childs future health and psyche. If mother and baby have had enough at 3 weeks or 3 years, who really cares.