Table 2.

Feeding practices in infants of Chinese-born and Australian-born mothers living in Australia

	Infants of Chinese-born		Infants of Australian-born
	n	Mean (SD)	n	Mean (SD)
Age stopped receiving breastmilk (months)	177	4.60 (3.77)	209	4.09 (4.60)
Age when first drank infant formula products (months)	430	1.16 (2.37)	392	1.69 (2.67) **
Age when first drank cow’s milk (months)	57	10.19 (5.90)	94	11.10 (3.33)
Age when first drank soy milk (months)	28	9.36 (6.12)	9	10.3 (5.48)
Age when first drank water-based drinks (months)	85	5.68 (4.83)	82	8.96 (5.63) ***
Age when first drank fruit juice (months)	174	6.37 (4.07)	104	9.92 (5.11) ***
Age when first ate soft, semi-solid, solid foods (months)	270	5.06 (1.30)	324	4.65 (1.14) ***
	n	%	n	%
Currently receiving breastmilk (yes)	577	66.0	569	59.9**
Age stopped breastmilk (months)
0–6	133	75.1	159	76.1
7–12	37	20.9	35	16.7
> 12	7	4.0	15	7.2
Ever drunk infant formula products (yes)	481	90.4	484	81.4***
Ever drunk water (yes)	477	82.2	479	72.9***
Ever drunk cow’s milk (yes)	475	13.1	478	20.5**
Ever drunk toddler milk (yes)	488	11.7	484	6.0**
Ever drunk soy milk (yes)	474	5.7	477	2.3**
Ever drunk any water-based drinks (yes)	476	18.3	477	17.0
Ever drunk fruit juice (yes)	476	37.6	479	22.8***
Ever eaten soft, semi-solid, solid foods (yes)	487	56.3	484	67.6***
Proportion of infants introduced to soft, semi-solid, solid foods prior to 6 months (yes)	183	67.8%	245	75.6%*
Ever eaten soft, semi-solid, solid foods ≤ 4 months (yes)	107	39.6%	154	47.5%

Water-based drinks: cordial, soft drink, tea (excludes diluted fruit juice and infant formula products). Note, varying of sample size due to age range of infants which were possibly too young to have been exposed to these infant feeding practices yet

*p < 0.05; **p < 0.01; ***p < 0.001