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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2017 Dec 11.
Published in final edited form as: South Med J. 2015 May;108(5):262–267. doi: 10.14423/SMJ.0000000000000277

Table 2.

Breast-feeding intentions and behavior of lawyers and physician mothers

Lawyers (29) Physicians (47) P
Intention to breast-feed (%) 29 (100) 47 (100)
Breast-feeding duration goal, mo 0.476
  Mean ± SD 9.24 ± 3.17 9.77 ± 3.31
  Median 12.00 12.00
  Range 3–12 2–12
Wanted to breast-feed for at least 12 mo (%) 16 (55) 27 (57)
Breast-feeding initiation (%) 29 (100) 46 (98) 0.432
Breast-feeding at 6 mo (%) 16 (55) 39 (83) 1.000
Breast-feeding at 12 mo (%) 5 (17) 24 (51) 1.000
Exclusive breast-feeding at birth (%) 25 (86) 37 (79) 1.000
Exclusive breast-feeding at 3 mo (%) 17 (59) 30 (64) 1.000
Exclusive breast-feeding at 6 mo (%) 12 (41) 12 (26) 1.000
Exclusive breast-feeding duration, mo 0.515
  Mean ± SD 3.53 ± 2.59 3.32 ± 2.36
  Median 2.50 4.00
  Range 0.0–9.0 0.0–6.0
Breast-feeding duration, mo 0.232
  Mean ± SD 9.71 ± 9.10 9.88 ± 6.48
  Median 7.00 9.00
  Range 2–48 0–30
Mothers who expressed milk at work (%) 23 (79) 42 (89) 0.083

SD, standard deviation.