In Ireland, sadly, you have to be super crunchy to even begin breastfeeding.
Worst initiation rates in the world (and I am talking about simply ONCE putting baby to the breast after birth). Its around the 35-40% rate, depending on the hospital! Aus, NZ, Eastern Europe like here in PL are in the 90s%, UK, USA, Canada in mid 70%s so its quite depressing to be from Ireland in this respect....you can imagine the looks I got feeding 12-18mth olds on the plane on the way back (not that I usually fed my 12-18mth olds during the day as they fed am and pm and I was working ft from 4 and 7mths but a bit of APOP on the plane with the booby always worked a treat to get a nap started....wish I still had that ammunition up my sleeve. These days, all I got is the leappad ;-)
S x