It's important to remember that breastfeeding is a natural process that has evolved over millions of years. Yet today we are often worried about whether that process will work for us. It's only really after the Second World War that artificial milk was introduced, with the introduction of a more modern age! Today we do know that artificial milk, even though it's become very sophisticated, isn't as nutritionally effective as maternal milk.

Mothers who wish to breastfeed, small or tall, thin or round, must believe in themselves! It's important to have time with your baby, be calm, available, not too tired, to eat and drink healthily and the most important is to want to breast feed your child. If these conditions are met, nature and your baby will do the rest. It's very rare to have a medical condition that prevents breastfeeding. 

It's important to remember that the fundamental condition for a successful breastfeed is that the mother is happy to do so, and that the father doesn't feel excluded. Breastfeeding mustn't become either a constraint or a nightmare, something you dread. It's better to give a bottle with a lot of love than to breastfeed with frustration! Family harmony must come first. The real modernity of bottles isn't in the sophistication of their formula, but in the choice that they give to those who don't want to breastfeed.

The desire to breastfeed  is becoming increasingly widespread. In Québec, Canada, for example, one third of babies are breastfed at five months of age. In Europe, the champions are the Scandinavians. Almost 50% of Norwegian babies are breastfed at 9 months. On the otherhand, only 10% of French babies are breastfed after two months ^a. The World Health Organization recommends exclusively breastfeeding until a child is six months of age.
 

 
a - source: Un regard social sur l'allaitement, Mélanie Thivierge, petitmonde.com