Chapter 1. Prenatal Survey

Table 1.36. Percent of pregnant women having each number of friends and relatives who never breastfed their babies at all by selected demographics1

Infant Feeding Practices Study II
  N 1 or 2 3 to 5 > 5 All have
breastfed		 None
have children		 Don't know Total (%)
ALL 4,878 28.2 18.1 19.0 7.1 0.7 26.9 100
Age
18-24 1,365 24.8 15.9 17.6 8.3 1.5 32.0 100
25-29 1,578 29.0 19.5 18.3 7.7 0.8 24.8 100
30-34 1,214 30.4 18.0 20.3 6.3 0.2 25.0 100
35+ 710 29.0 19.6 20.8 5.1 0.3 25.2 100
Parity
Primiparous 1,516 28.3 15.8 14.2 9.4 1.1 31.2 100
Multiparous 3,188 28.5 19.4 21.6 5.9 0.5 24.1 100
Education
HS or less 1,049 23.0 16.8 21.0 5.8 0.7 32.8 100
Some college 1,753 28.8 18.3 19.6 6.2 0.6 26.6 100
College graduate 1,460 34.2 20.3 16.0 9.2 0.5 19.8 100
Income (% of poverty)
< 185% 2,191 25.4 16.7 19.9 6.9 0.9 30.2 100
185- < 350% 1,676 29.3 18.6 18.8 7.2 0.6 25.5 100
>=350% 1,011 32.3 20.3 17.3 7.3 0.6 22.2 100
WIC Participant
No 3,243 30.7 18.6 18.2 7.7 0.7 24.1 100
Yes 1,626 23.3 17.0 20.7 5.8 0.7 32.5 100
Race
White 3,849 29.6 19.0 18.9 6.2 0.7 25.6 100
Black 294 16.0 14.6 28.2 10.5 1.4 29.3 100
Hispanic 332 27.7 17.5 15.7 6.9 0.3 31.9 100
Region
Northeast 822 28.1 20.3 19.7 7.2 0.6 24.1 100
Midwest 1,406 26.4 19.9 21.5 4.7 0.8 26.7 100
South 1,690 26.6 16.5 21.8 7.0 0.8 27.3 100
West 960 33.8 16.3 9.7 10.6 0.7 29.0 100

1Table is based on variables: P38, P39