Chapter 3. Infant Feeding |
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Table 3.44. Percent of mothers who said that they expected to completely stop breastfeeding when their infant was each age prenatally and at various infant ages in months1, among mothers who intended to or breastfed their baby Infant Feeding Practices Study II |
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| Infant age in months | N | <2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | >12 | Total (%) |
| Prenatal | 3,810 | 2.4 | 3.2 | 5.4 | 3.3 | 2.4 | 18.4 | 4.3 | 4.6 | 6.9 | 4.7 | 2.3 | 28.2 | 13.9 | 100 |
| Neonatal | 2,111 | 3.4 | 3.6 | 6.0 | 3.1 | 1.9 | 17.7 | 2.0 | 4.2 | 6.1 | 3.0 | 1.6 | 31.6 | 15.8 | 100 |
| 2 | 1,547 | n/a | 1.1 | 2.8 | 3.9 | 1.7 | 16.7 | 2.9 | 3.2 | 5.6 | 4.7 | 1.2 | 34.8 | 21.5 | 100 |
| 5 | 1,127 | n/a | n/a | n/a | 0.5 | 1.2 | 9.8 | 5.0 | 3.5 | 5.9 | 5.0 | 1.4 | 42.4 | 25.3 | 100 |
| 7 | 859 | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | n/a | 0.3 | 1.5 | 4.4 | 5.5 | 5.7 | 1.7 | 48.5 | 32.2 | 100 |
1Table is based on variables: P31, N62, M2D5, M5D4, M7D4 |
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