Table 4.
Infant feeding methods by borough of residence at 6 weeks, 17 weeks and 6 months.
| Feeding methods | 6 weeks | 17 weeks | 6 months | |||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Total No (%) |
BwD No (%) |
Hyndburn No (%) |
PΔ value | Total No (%) |
BwD No (%) |
Hyndburn No (%) |
PΔ value | Total No (%) |
BwD No (%) |
Hyndburn No (%) |
PΔ value | |
| Exclusively breast | 1,449 (69.2%) | 1,120 (70.3%) | 329 (65.8%) |
0.0594 | 930 (46.2%) |
740 (48.2%) |
190 (39.7%) |
0.0011 | 262 (13.4%) |
223 (14.9%) |
39 (8.5%) |
0.0002 |
| Exclusively formula | 327 (15.6%) |
235 (14.7%) |
92 (18.4%) |
0.0484 | 414 (20.6%) |
299 (19.5%) |
115 (24.1%) |
0.0212 | 85 (4.3%) |
70 (4.7%) |
15 (3.3%) |
0.1941 |
| Formula & Breast | 318 (15.2%) |
239 (15.0%) |
79 (15.8%) |
0.6183 | 258 (12.8%) |
200 (13.0%) |
58 (12.1%) |
0.5853 | 55 (2.8%) |
43 (2.9%) |
12 (2.6%) |
0.7511 |
| Breast & solid# | 0 (0.0%) |
0 (0.0%) |
0 (0.0%) |
- | 53 (2.6%) |
38 (2.5%) |
15 (3.1%) |
0.3360 | 502 (25.6%) |
392 (26.2%) |
110 (23.9%) |
0.0233 |
| Formula & solid# | 0 (0.0%) |
0 (0.0%) |
0 (0.0%) |
- | 4 (0.2%) |
4 (0.3%) |
0 (0.0%) |
0.3111 | 93 (4.7%) |
84 (5.6%) |
9 (2.0%) |
0.0004 |
| Breast, formula & solid# | 0 (0.0%) |
0 (0.0%) |
0 (0.0%) |
- | 28 (1.4%) |
20 (1.3%) |
8 (1.7%) |
0.3905 | 179 (9.1%) |
130 (8.7%) |
49 (10.6%) |
0.1972 |
| Solid# | 0 (0.0%) |
0 (0.0%) |
0 (0.0%) |
- | 0 (0.0%) |
0 (0.0%) |
0 (0.0%) |
- | 2 (0.1%) |
2 (0.1%) |
0 (0.0%) |
- |
| Had stopped BF* | 0 (0.0%) |
0 (0.0%) |
0 (0.0%) |
- | 326 (16.2%) |
234 (15.2%) |
92 (19.2%) |
0.0336 | 781 (39.9%) |
554 (37.0%) |
227 (49.2%) |
< 0.0001 |
| Total valid data | 2,094 (100.0%) | 1,594 (100.0%) | 500 (100.0%) |
- | 2,013 (100.0%) | 1,535 (100.0%) | 478 (100.0%) |
- | 1,959 (100.0%) | 1,498 (100.0%) | 461 (100.0%) |
- |
| Missing data | 13 | 12 | 1 | 0.2081 | 94 | 71 | 23 | 0.8057 | 148 | 108 | 40 | 0.3188 |
Δp values are for the differences between BwD and Hyndburn mothers.
#'Solid' refer to weaning food.
* Little Angels stop follow-up visits/contacts with mothers who had stopped breastfeeding at any assessment point. "Had stopped BF" refers to those mothers.