Table 1.

Demographic characteristics of the families

	1 month	3 months
Race/ethnicity (N) Caucasian African-American Hispanic More than 1 group	97 (85.8%) 9 (8.0%) 2 (1.8%) 5 (4.4%)	70 (86.4%) 5 (6.2%) 2 (2.5%) 4 (4.9%)
Marital status (N) Married Engaged Single	106 (93.8%) 2 (1.8%) 5 (4.4%)	78 (96.4%) 1 (1.2%) 2 (2.5%)
Employment (N) Outside of home In school Full-time mother	50 (44.2%) 4 (3.5%) 59 (52.2%)	32 (39.5%) 2 (2.5%) 47 (58.0%)
Parity (N) One child Two children More than 2 children	43 (38.1%) 44 (38.9%) 26 (23.0%)	26 (32.1%) 35 (43.2%) 20 (25.7%)
Depression and feeding group (N) Depressed and breastfeeding Depressed and bottle-feeding Nondepressed and breastfeeding Nondepressed and bottle-feeding	14 14 59 26	9 8 49 15
CES-D scores (mean [SD]) Depressed group Nondepressed group	21.5 (6.60) 6.57 (4.10)	9.56 (5.74) 4.48 (3.73)
Days breastfeeding (mean [SD]) Stable breastfeeding group Bottle or mixed feeding group		87.15 (11.56) 30.60 (30.69)

CES-D, Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale.