The Claridge’s breastfeeding incident is absurd – I refuse to be offended

Deborah Orr: If men and women can’t unite to insist that babies should come first, there’s no hope for humankind

Claridge’s hotel criticised after telling breastfeeding woman to cover up

Louise Burns says she felt humiliated after being told to cover up while feeding 12-week-old baby during Christmas tea with family

Breastfeeding targets set up new mothers to fail. Let’s get real

Enough of the one-size-fits-all approach. What women need are individually tailored feeding plans developed before the birth that are actually achievable

Are links between breastfeeding and health confounded? Quite possibly

Suzi Gage: How robust is observational data assessing associations between breastfeeding and health? A 2008 study came up with a novel way to try and find out

It’s class, not whether a baby is breastfed, that determines life chances

Eliane Glaser: Paying working-class women to breastfeed doesn’t address the reasons for their choice, or the economic factors that are really driving inequality

We don’t know why a mum abandoned her newborn baby. But we do know that the system fails mothers

Amy Gray: As crimes go, abandoning a newborn in a drain is awful. Cases like this are exceedingly rare, but our society’s neglect of mothers makes them possible

Scheme offering shopping vouchers to mothers who breastfeed to be extended

The UK has one of the lowest breastfeeding rates in the world but pilot scheme suggests offering vouchers can help takeup

I feel let down by my mum – again

My mother and my brother who sides with her have caused me great distress. How do I move on?

Don’t turn mothers who drink into criminals

Joanna Moorhead: Women with a drink or drug problem need support not condemnation. But are we prepared to help them?

The Guardian view on criminalising drinking in pregnancy: no cheers

Editorial: Who will benefit from the bid to criminalise a woman who damaged her baby by drinking in pregnancy?