Chapter 3. Infant Feeding

Table 3.1. Percent of babies who were fed each food in the past 7 days by infant age1

Infant Feeding Practices Study II
  Infant age in months
  Neonatal 2 3 4 5 6 7 9 10 12
Total (n) 3,002 2,546 2,381 2,232 2,178 2,092 2,017 1,942 1,804 1,802
Breast milk 72.4 63.8 60.4 56.9 53.7 49.8 45.6 41.6 37.1 25.2
Formula 59.3 60.3 60.4 62.9 64.8 67.5 68.9 70.5 69.8 35.6
Water 11.4 n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
Sugar water 2.6 n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
Cow's milk or any other milk 0.6 n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a n/a
Cow's milk n/a 0.4 0.5 0.4 0.6 1.4 1.6 5.9 19.2 82.0
Other milk n/a 0.3 0.3 0.4 0.5 0.5 1.0 1.7 2.5 7.2
Other dairy foods n/a 0.6 0.7 1.3 2.1 6.6 15.3 35.1 57.6 80.5
Other soy foods n/a 0.1 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.8 1.1 2.7 3.7 5.6
100% fruit/ vegetable juice 2.2 3.5 5.1 9.1 21.8 34.5 53.5 62.9 68.9 77.1
Sweet drinks 0.5 0.8 1.0 2.0 2.2 3.2 4.3 6.3 9.6 14.7
Baby cereal 6.4 14.6 22.4 45.3 73.2 83.9 86.0 83.3 70.2 45.9
Other cereals and starches n/a 1.0 1.3 3.0 7.3 18.6 41.0 73.0 85.9 93.2
Fruit n/a 2.4 4.7 13.4 42.4 73.3 91.9 97.2 98.1 98.6
Vegetables n/a 1.3 3.1 10.6 41.7 75.4 93.2 97.4 97.8 98.8
French fries n/a 0.1 0.0 0.3 0.5 1.7 4.5 14.4 26.1 43.4
Meat, chicken, combination dinners n/a 0.5 0.5 0.9 8.3 22.8 49.2 77.0 88.1 93.8
Fish or shellfish n/a 0.0 0.0 0.1 0.2 0.2 1.1 4.2 8.3 17.9
Peanut butter, other peanut foods, or nuts n/a 0.2 0.1 0.1 0.1 0.4 0.7 1.9 7.0 25.9
Eggs n/a 0.1 0.3 0.4 0.5 1.9 5.4 14.7 29.0 59.8
Sweet foods n/a 0.1 0.2 0.4 0.5 1.7 4.2 12.8 26.2 53.1

1Table is based on variables: N40A-I, M2A1A-S, M3A1A-S, M4A1A-S, M5A1A-S, M6A1A-S, M7A1A-R, M9A1A-R, MXA1A-R, MWA1A-R