Other People's Breast Milk

Kate Garraway Interview

When she's not getting up at an obscenely early hour to present GMTV, Kate Garraway is getting up at an obscenely early hour to look after her two-year-old daughter Darcey. Somehow, she has also managed to find the time to make Other People's Breast Milk, a look at the complex, emotive and controversial world of breastfeeding.

Here, Kate talks about why she wanted to make this programme, and reveals some of the extraordinary stories she uncovered along the way.

What's the programme about?
It's a look at breastfeeding from a whole host of different viewpoints. It looks at everything from communities where people breastfeed each others' babies to breast milk donation and wet-nursing, and also examines attitudes to breast-feeding in this country. And I go and meet women who are able to produce breast-milk even though they've never been pregnant, a mother who believes breast milk saved her child's life, and a man who takes breast milk as a cure for his cancer.

Was it a programme you wanted to make because of your own experiences as a mother?
Yes, definitely. The whole area of breastfeeding is such a complex one, and so fraught with emotion and misinformation. I was able to breastfeed for the first year, although there were occasions, when I was working, when I was quite happy to give my baby a bottle of formula. But it's an area that is so interesting for me, having experienced it myself.

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