Table 1.

Characteristics of the breast-fed and formula-fed group of infants

	Breast-fed infants	formula-fed infants
n	33	27
Birth weight (kg:)	3.3 ± 0.1	3.3 ± 0.1
Gestational age (weeks)	39.1 ± 0.2	38.6 ± 0.3
Weight loss (% of birth weight)	7.6 ± 0.4*	5.9 ± 0.5*
parity (% nulliparae)	22 (67%)	6 (22%)
Male (% of all infants)	16 (48%)	13 (48%)
Caesarian section (% of all infants)	31 (94%)	21 (78%)

All values are means ± standard error of the mean (SEM).

*p < 0.05. There were no significant differences between BF and FF infants in any of the other parameters.