Chapter 7. Employment and Day Care

Table 7.8. Percent of mothers who arranged each kind of baby care while they worked by infant age1,2, among mothers who worked during the past 4 weeks

Infant Feeding Practices Study II

  Month 3 Month 6 Month 9 Month 12
Baby is cared by a family member 56.7 56.4 54.5 53.6
Baby is cared by someone not in the family 32.1 36.0 40.0 41.7
Mom keeps baby with her while she works at home 17.8 14.3 14.5 12.8
Mom keeps baby with her while she works outside her home 10.3 9.4 8.0 5.3
N 939 978 961 923

1Table is based on variables: M3H11A-D, M6H17A-D, M9H18A-D, MWH17A-D

2Column percentages do not add up to 100% because mothers could choose all that apply