Table 3.
Feeding at discharge and at three and six months in two hospital groups. Figures are number (percentage) of participants
| Group and type of breast feeding | At discharge
|
At three months
|
At six months
|
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|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Phase 1 | Phase 2 | Phase 3 | Phase 1 | Phase 2 | Phase 3 | Phase 1 | Phase 2 | Phase 3 | |||
| Group 1 (training after phase 1) | |||||||||||
| No of mothers | 518 | 503 | 510 | 506 | 500 | 510 | 485 | 368 | 366 | ||
| Exclusive | 212 (41) | 398 (79) | 393 (77) | 101 (20) | 167 (33) | 129 (25) | 3 (1) | 8 (2) | 3 (1) | ||
| Predominant | 127 (25) | 19 (4) | 40 (8) | 85 (17) | 91 (18) | 127 (25) | 6 (1) | 10 (3) | 4 (1) | ||
| Complementary | 175 (34) | 80 (16) | 71 (14) | 129 (25) | 98 (20) | 94 (18) | 197 (41) | 218 (59) | 219 (60) | ||
| None | 4 (1) | 6 (1) | 6 (1) | 191 (38) | 144 (29) | 160 (31) | 279 (58) | 132 (36) | 140 (38) | ||
| Group 2 (training after phase 2) | |||||||||||
| No of mothers | 464 | 320 | 271 | 471 | 318 | 280 | 454 | 275 | 233 | ||
| Exclusive | 105 (23) | 96 (30) | 194 (72) | 69 (15) | 67 (21) | 127 (45) | 4 (1) | 10 (4) | 30 (13) | ||
| Predominant | 210 (45) | 196 (61) | 55 (20) | 118 (25) | 75 (24) | 43 (15) | 4 (1) | 2 (1) | 9 (4) | ||
| Complementary | 135 (29) | 26 (8) | 21 (8) | 107 (23) | 55 (17) | 31 (11) | 178 (39) | 116 (42) | 110 (47) | ||
| None | 14 (3) | 2 (1) | 0 | 177 (38) | 121 (38) | 79 (28) | 268 (59) | 147 (53) | 84 (36) | ||