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. 2012 Mar 16;5:150. doi: 10.1186/1756-0500-5-150

Table 3.

Results of infant behaviour diaries collected at the 2 week visit, according to randomised group (results are median (25th, 75th centiles) minutes per day spent in each behavioural state)

Bottle A Bottle B Breast
n = 22 n = 18 p* n = 47 p**

Minutes per day

Crying 0 (0,16) 1 (0,19) 0.8 0 (0,37) 0.9

Fussing 40 (9,73) 85 (40,109) 0.045 65 (25,105) 0.13

Colic 0 (0,16) 0 (0,16) 0.8 0 (0,10) 1.0

Awake and happy 215 (156,279) 182 (130,308) 0.5 203 (150,285) 0.7

Asleep 914 (808,978) 933 (815,1005) 0.7 861 (783,935) 0.2

Feeding 235 (173,278) 195 (128,282) 0.4 245 (210,304) 0.1

* Mann-Whitney bottle A versus bottle B

** Kruskal-Wallis