Glasgow City Region

Breastfeeding trends across Glasgow City Region

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There were reductions in exclusive breastfeeding rates (at the 6-8 week review) in the majority of Glasgow City region local authorities up to the early 2010s and then an overall increase since around 2013/14. In the latest year shown, around half of the local authorities that make up GCR, including Glasgow itself, had reductions, whilst the other half had increases in the proportion of babies being exclusively breastfed at their 6-8 week visit.

East Dunbartonshire and East Renfrewshire have had consistently higher exclusive breastfeeding rates than Glasgow and the Scottish average. All other Glasgow City region local authorities have had consistently lower breastfeeding rates than the Scottish average. 

Notes

All babies are offered a health review approximately six to eight weeks following their birth. The Health Visitor notes whether the baby is still being exclusively breastfed, bottle fed formula or a mixture of both. The status is recorded in the Child Health Surveillance Programme, Pre-School. The figures shown are for those exclusively breastfed at the time of the visit.

Visits for which the status has not been recorded or known have been included in the denominator. These figures come from Public Health Scotland. This page was updated in February 2023, with figures from 2022. It will be updated again when the data is next released, expected in November 2023.