Chapter 3. Infant Feeding

Table 3.13. Percent of babies who were encouraged with each frequency to finish a bottle or a cup if they stopped drinking before the formula was all gone by infant age¹, among formula fed babies Infant Feeding Practices Study II
Infant age in months	N	Never	Rarely	Sometimes	Most of the time	Always	Total (%)
2	1,521	18.7	22.2	33.0	19.7	6.4	100
3	1,425	18.5	22.0	31.6	20.3	7.6	100
4	1,392	17.4	23.3	32.7	20.3	6.4	100
5	1,410	18.2	24.4	30.3	20.1	7.0	100
6	1,390	17.3	23.4	31.5	21.1	6.7	100
7	1,381	18.3	24.6	31.0	19.2	6.9	100
9	1,358	18.2	24.6	32.6	17.7	6.9	100
10	1,242	20.2	21.7	31.3	19.9	6.8	100
12	626	20.8	24.6	31.8	16.8	6.1	100
¹Table is based on variables: M2A9, M3A9, M4A11, M5A10, M6A10, M7A10, M9A10, MXA11, MWA10