title: Good breastfeeding policies -- good breastfeeding rates.
abstract: In Norway, where breast-feeding policies protecting breast-feeding women's needs have been in place since the 1970s, approximately 97% of women breast feed when leaving the hospital, 80% are breast feeding at 3 months, and 20% beyond 12 months.  Government family policies play an important role in enabling women to achieve good breast-feeding rates.  In Norway: maternity leave is 42 weeks with full pay or 52 weeks with 80% of salary; flexible part-time is available for women from 2 months after giving birth with income supplemented from maternity benefits; after returning to work, women are entitled to 1- to 1.5-hour breaks to return home to breast feed, or to have the child brought to work.  "Breast feeding is so normal," writes Hege Jacobson Lepri, "it's more embarrassing to bring out the feeding bottle in public."
mesh_terms: D001942:Breast Feeding; D019049:Developed Countries; D004467:Economics; D005060:Europe; D006262:Health; D007227:Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D009664:Norway; D009747:Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D011640:Public Policy; D012537:Scandinavian and Nordic Countries
keywords: Breast Feeding--legal aspects; Developed Countries; Economic Factors; Europe; Health; Infant Nutrition; Maternity Benefits; Microeconomic Factors; Northern Europe; Norway; Nutrition; Policy; Scandinavia