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Daily Record
Daily Record
National
Billy Gaddi

West Dunbartonshire has one of the lowest rates of breastfeeding in Scotland.

Less than half of babies in West Dunbartonshire are breastfed making the area have one of the lowest rates in Scotland.

During 2020/21, just 47.5 percent of babies in the region had ever been breastfed, with only Inverclyde and North Lanarkshire recording lower figures.

In West Dunbartonshire, this was down from 49.8 percent in 2018/19 and is lower than the average for the most deprived areas in Scotland, which sits at 50.2 percent.

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