Table 4.

Breastfeeding practices, breastfeeding difficulties and mean infant weight gain in patients

	LNG‐IUS postpartum	LNG‐IUS at caesarean	P‐value
Breastfeeding, %
Six weeks	36.8 (7/19)	70.8 (17/24)	0.034
Three months	22.2 (4/18)	56.5 (13/23)	0.054
Six months	11.8 (2/17)	52.4 (11/21)	0.015
Breastfeeding difficulties, %
Six weeks	5.3 (1/19)	12.5 (3/24)	0.62
Three months	0	0
Six months	0	0
Mean infant weight gain
Six weeks Mean (SD)	1496 g (510 g) n = 15	1399 g (612 g) n = 20	0.62
Three months Mean (SD)	2472 g (757 g) n = 13	2719 g (651 g) n = 21	0.32
Six months Mean (SD)	4361 g (792 g) n = 13	4163 g (1560 g) n = 14	0.69