Why women prefer to breastfeed in front of strangers

A new study has found that Irish mothers have reported feeling more at ease breastfeeding in front of people they do not know than doing so near their own father-in-law. Dr Louise Gallagher, Assistant professor in midwifery at Trinity College Dublin talked us through the findings.

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