Example sentences for: breastfed

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  • Illiterate mothers, mothers with less than six years of education, mothers with manual rather than white-collar work, and mothers who had breastfed earlier infants expressed a desire to sustain breastfeeding longer than their counterparts did (univariate analyses; all p-values <0.

  • Ninety-eight percent of the infants had been breastfed for some amount of time.

  • The time pattern of exclusive breastfeeding could be split into four phases: about 75-85% of the infants under 3 weeks of age were exclusively breastfed, and during the following 1-2 months about 40% of the infants were exclusively breastfed (Figure 1).

  • Among infants below the age of 4 months, 96% were breastfed (n = 247, percentages were adjusted for the sizes of the age sub-groups).

  • In Bolivia, the exclusive breastfeeding rate in infants under 4 months of age has been found to be above 50%, with 14% of infants still being exclusively breastfed when 6-9 months old [ 5 ] . In contrast, a later study in Bolivia found that no infants were exclusively breastfed at 4 months of age, even if practically all were breastfed at 7 months [ 6 ] . Infant nutrition in Bolivia and/or infant and maternal health have been the topic of several studies [ 7 8 9 10 11 ] , but none has focused on determinants of breastfeeding.


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