. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Jul 1.

Published in final edited form as: Matern Child Health J. 2016 Jul;20(7):1375–1383. doi: 10.1007/s10995-016-1934-z

Table 1.

Demographic and clinical characteristics of participants

	Participants N = 696
Pre-pregnancy BMI (kg/m²)
<25	299 (43)
25–30	185 (26.6)
30–35	116 (16.7)
35–40	41 (5.9)
>40	55 (7.9)
Age 6 months postpartum (years)	26.6 ± 5.9
Nulliparous	237 (34.1)
Race/ethnicity
African American	317 (45.5)
White	203 (29.2)
Hispanic-Spanish speaking	110 (15.8)
Hispanic-English speaking	66 (9.5)
Tobacco use (6 months post partum)	100 (14.4)
Public insurance (6 months postpartum)	469 (67.4)
Not breastfeeding (6 months postpartum)	521 (74.9)

All data are presented as n (%) or mean ± standard deviation