Chapter 3. Infant Feeding

Table 3.52. Percent of mothers who used each method to pump or express milk by infant age1,2, among mothers who pumped at each age

Infant Feeding Practices Study II

  Months 0-2 Months 3-5 Months 6-7
Electric breast pump 59.1 58.9 60.5
Combination electric and battery operated pump 17.2 14.9 12.7
Battery operated pump 3.8 2.1 1.7
Manual pump 43.6 34.6 33.3
By hand 15.4 12.5 9.0
N 1,781 1,004 598

1Table is based on variables: M2D16A-E, M5D15A-E, M7D15A-E
2Column percentages do not add up to 100% because mothers could choose all that apply