Table 1.
Infants’ Feeding Behaviors during the Hours After Exposure to Alcohol in Mothers’ Milka
| Type of beverage consumed by lactating mothers |
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|---|---|---|---|
| Behavior: hours post exposure | Orange juice alone (Control Condition) | Orange juice + ethanol (ROH Condition) | Percent differenceb (ROH-Control)/Control★ 100) |
| Milk intake (ml) | |||
| 0–4 | 200.6 ± 24.4 | 147.4 ± 17.7★ | −21.1 ± 8.3 |
| 4–8 | 138.7 ± 18.1 | 120.2 ± 18.9 | 13.3 ± 28.3 |
| 8–12 | 117.8 ± 16.9 | 149.1 ± 17.4★ | 38.0 ± 16.1 |
| 12–16 | 70.8 ± 16.7 | 77.6 ± 13.3 | 24.7 ± 34.7 |
| Total | 527.8 ± 37.7 | 494.3 ± 46.9 | −7.3 ± 6.4 |
| Number of breastfeeds | |||
| 0–4 | 2.4 ± 0.2 | 2.4 ± 0.3 | 5.5 ± 14.9 |
| 4–8 | 2.3 ± 0.3 | 2.0 ± 0.2 | 6.9 ± 20.3 |
| 8–12 | 1.5 ± 0.2 | 2.1 ± 0.3★ | 45.8 ± 19.9 |
| 12–16 | 1.4 ± 0.3 | 1.3 ± 0.1 | 8.3 ± 17.3 |
| Total | 7.6 ± 0.6 | 7.8 ± 0.7 | 6.3 ± 10.3 |
a
A within-subjects design study in which each of 12 infants was observed for 16 hr after exposure to alcohol in mothers’ milk on one testing day and mothers’ milk alone on another.
b
Percent difference scores were calculated from each infant’s individual data, not from the group means (see text).
★
p < 0.05 when compared with the control condition.