Chapter 3. Infant Feeding

Table 3.25. Percent of babies who were encouraged to finish a cup or bottle if they stopped drinking before the pumped breast milk was all gone by infant age1, among babies fed pumped breast milk in the past 7 days

Infant Feeding Practices Study II
  Babies fed pumped milk  
Infant age
in months		 N Never Rarely Some
times		 Most of
the time		 Always Total (%)
2 861 25.8 21.8 24.7 19.3 8.4 100
3 749 23.1 22.0 29.1 17.1 8.7 100
4 648 25.2 21.9 25.8 18.1 9.1 100
5 562 24.4 23.0 23.3 18.0 11.4 100
6 456 23.7 23.9 25.2 18.2 9.0 100
7 333 27.0 21.6 24.9 18.0 8.4 100
9 250 20.0 27.2 25.2 19.6 8.0 100
10 175 20.6 22.9 26.9 21.1 8.6 100
12 76 30.3 23.7 23.7 11.8 10.5 100

1Table is based on variables: M2A17, M2A19, M3A17, M3A19, M4A19, M4A21, M5A18, M5A20, M6A18, M6A20, M7A18, M7A20, M9A18, M9A20, MXA19, MXA21, MWA18, MWA20