Chapter 3. Infant Feeding |
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Table 3.47. Percent of mothers indicating each method of feeding their baby breast milk while they were working by infant age1,2, among mothers who worked for pay while breastfeeding Infant Feeding Practices Study II |
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| Methods of feeding babies breast milk while working | Month 2 | Month 5 | Month 7 |
| I keep my baby with me while I work and breastfeed during my work day | 38.1 | 26.4 | 28.2 |
| I go to my baby and breastfeed him or her during my work day | 7.7 | 8.9 | 10.2 |
| My baby is brought to me to breastfeed during my work day | 2.9 | 2.9 | 3.3 |
| I pump milk during my work day and save it for my baby to drink later | 51.3 | 58.0 | 50.8 |
| I pump milk during my work day, but I do not save it for my baby to drink later | 0.7 | 0.8 | 1.1 |
| I neither pump milk nor breastfeed during my work day | 12.0 | 14.1 | 17.7 |
| N | 417 | 481 | 362 |
1Table is based on
variables: M2D11A-F, M5D10A-F, M7D10A-F |
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