Table 3.

Reasons for Intending to Pump Among Postpartum Women Planning to Provide Human Milk for ≥6 Months and Planning to Use Breast Pump (n = 98)

	Already started pumping (n = 15)		Not yet started pumping (n = 83)
	n	%	n	%
Reasons for using a breast pumpa
To keep up milk supply when away from baby	11	73	78	94
To increase my milk supply	10	67	9	11
Baby has trouble latching	4	27	2	2
To build up a supply in the freezer for when I go back to work	4	27	24	29
To allow others to feed baby	0		11	13
For me to feed the baby when I don't want to feed at the breast	0		5	6

^aTotal >100%—because women could provide more than one response.