Ms Megan Etherton:

We have been very clear that we are not a "breast is best" group. There definitely are camps that have been set up that divide women into groups of "breast is best" versus "fed is best", which does not benefit either the mother or the baby. We believe that women generally are aware of the benefits of breastfeeding and are very much encouraged to breastfeed but are extremely let down in maternity hospitals.

Sometimes there is shock from being led along the path of being told they would be helped and that women should do it because it is wonderful but then the choice to breastfeed is taken away because the women are left without any help or resources. That does not happen in every case but in many of them. We just want to level the playing field and, as Ms Cahill has pointed, ensure the choice to breastfeed is available to women.