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A Welsh Labour MP has praised the "overwhelming response" she received after she posted a picture of her breastfeeding her son online.

Pontypridd MP Alex Davies-Jones took to Twitter to celebrate reaching 10 months of breastfeeding her son.

The newly-elected MP told the Mirror that she had debated not posting the picture - but said that the positive response had encouraged her to use her position to raise awareness of issues around breastfeeding.

The tweet said: "I joined the @APPGIFI today. It’s also Sullivan’s 10month b/day which means 10months of breastfeeding. Only 0.5% of women in the UK breastfeed up to a year (lowest rate in the world) I want to add to that stat & use my voice to support all those who need it. #Breastfeeding"

After hundreds of mums praised the picture the MP told the Mirror: "Oh I am so happy, the response has been so overwhelmingly positive.

"I did go back and forth about posting the picture, but I am not ashamed of feeding my son and why should I be?"

She said that she had ultimately made the post to help people realise this isn't something mums should feel ashamed about.

"It is a chance to use my position to encourage people to feel comfortable feeding their children whenever and wherever they need to," she said.

In that spirit, Ms Davies-Jones said she has been asking questions about breastfeeding in the House of Commons.

She added: "I went to see the Speaker Lindsay Hoyle and it turns out there isn't a ruling on if women can breastfeed in the chamber of the House of Commons.

"There was a committee set up by John Bercow about making the place more family friendly, but they never decided on breastfeeding.

"So I asked what would happen if I did breastfeed in the chamber and the Speaker said he didn't know."

"Now I am not saying I am going to be the first person to do that, but there are a lot of mums in Parliament.

"We often sit quite late and it would be really useful if I was able to feed my son when and where I needed to.

"It is something that needs to change."

A number of MP mums have brought their children into the chamber - including Labour's Stella Creasy and ex-Lib Dem leader Jo Swinson.

In Australia in 2017, Larissa Waters, a Greens MP, addressed the chamber – she was speaking about black lung disease, a condition affecting coal miners - while feeding her baby, a 14-week-old named Alia Joy.

Asked if she had experienced any negative responses to breastfeeding in public, Ms Davies-Jones said: "90% of the people have been really supportive.

"If people saw me breastfeeding in a cafe they would come up and give me a glass of water.

"I had one incident in the St David's 2 Centre in Cardiff. I was feeding my son while I was walking around shopping with my mum. One woman came over and said 'oh you should sit down or go over there', but even that wasn't exclusively negative, she may have just been worried about my welfare."