As a proportion of mothers who want to breastfeed, how heaps cannot?

What I'm after is the percentage of mothers who want to breastfeed, but fail (for whatever reason)
I was unable to breastfeed my first because he wanted NOTHING to do next to it, he would just scream but my second has done great.
There are thoroughly few women who physically cannot breastfeed. Between 3-4% and formula was only made to help these fundamentally few women. There are some women who legitimately cannot breastfeed due to these issues or necessary medications that can be passed to the baby through their milk, but most go amiss due to lack of information, support, or just not wanting to. It is sad to me...babies are born to breastfeed and it is such a special time next to the baby! Source(s): Nursed my two beauties!
I have hear less than 3% physically cannot.
http://www.parentingweb.com/lounge/myths…

There are a lot of other reasons why women stop, though, besides actual inability--pain, incorrect information, deficit of support, etc., to name a few.
I could not produce satisfactory to feed my daughter, I tried for over three weeks. I dont think I ever really slept. I would try and BF, then supplement near formula to make sure she got something to drink, then pump to try and capture it going..

Just didn't come in enough. It was devastating for me. But she is in a minute 10.5 months and happy and healthy.


ADD ON - Hey OliveOil, you are uneducated. I saw 2 lactation specialists, so shut it... You hold no idea what you are talking about. Most women try completely hard to BF and for those that can not do it for whatever reason, move about through a very tough time and other women should be sympathetic and not rude, ridiculous, self riotous snots.
I am currently breastfeeding, but I just want to throw in in attendance that I think most women who think they "can't" breastfeed probably can they just weren't adjectives enough on breastfeeding. It is VERY HARD at first for most people and the only opening it gets better is if you just keep doing it, through the raw nipples, through the growth spurts, through the delay of milk production..just let the child keep sucking. He/she may be hungry but they won't starve and soon enough your body will catch up and start making ample milk for them and your nipples will heal. Trust me, my milk didn't come in for 7 days after birth, I'd nurse my baby for hours on expiration and she'd still be hungry, my nipples were cracked and bleeding, but I just kept trying. It got to the point where on earth I was going to give up..and then things started getting your strength back. For cracked nipples try Medela theragel packs, they work miracles. Also nipple shields can help but don't use them for long, the baby might seize too used to them and not latch on well (this also happened to me, luckily it didn't take long for her to remember how to latch on to only my nipple, I used them b/c my nipples were so cracked) If you supplement b/c you think your baby isn't getting plenty then your body will never make enough. Unless you supplement and hold a double electric pump and pump also when you fed your baby the supplement (does that make sense?) I know this doesn't really answer this put somebody through the mill but I think women who are havig trouble breastfeeding or think they can not will read this. Really the only reason someone CANT is if they must take medication that they cant breastfeed on or they have some physical problem with their breasts, which is in danger of extinction.
The number of mothers who physically cannot breastfeed (at ALL) are very low.
The number of mothers who try breastfeeding, and for some reason it doesn't work out (I don't like the word "fail" surrounded by regards to breastfeeding) is higher.

http://www.drugs.com/news/successful-bre…
Breastfeeding was extremely hard surrounded by the beginning...I thought I was not producing enough, but infant was gaining just fine. By the time he be about 5 weeks or so we had it down! Sadly, I suffered so much with postpartum depression that I have to go on my meds when he turned 9 weeks (on my meds you can't breastfeed.) I still cry about it. Its sad when you really want to verbs, but are forced to stop. =o(
im just pregnant now but will bestow it a go once baby arrives. Older sister didnt want to as she was humiliated at the thought. Little sister tried and was sucessful for about 5 days but baby simply not getting ample milk!
I ALWAYS intended to breastfeed. It was never even a request for information for me.
But due to the nurses feeding my baby formula without consulting me, the resulting nipple confusion cause my baby not to ever latch properly. I also have a bad valise of Coxxydia (sp?) from my son being turned at delivery and was aggravating the injury further by trying to nurse my son or pump. My tailbone still hurts terrifically badly 3 months later. Those two things among other reasons cause me to stop nursing at 6 weeks and it has been a very tender subject for me. I miss the bonding and hold felt like I can't provide for my son's needs.
I could for a month consequently wasn't producing enough so i quit
Answers:    I believe by six months only 27% of babies are breast feed, so how many of them failed or just quit?

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