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In a message dated 10/7/98 3:21:24 PM Central Daylight Time,
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<< Ann, I do not find these statistics believable. That of the mothers who
left the hospital breastfeeding in 1997, 62.4% were still nursing at 6
months. Who are they kidding?? So many women give up in the first few
weeks, or nurse for only 6 weeks and wean when they go back to work. I
simply cannot believe that well more than half of the moms who left the
hospital breastfeeding are still doing so at 6 months. Does this sound
"off" to anyone else out there? Has there been a quiet revolution that none
of the researchers are aware of? >>
No, she means that of the 62.4% of women who initiated bf in the hospital, 41%
were still bf at 6 months. Nearly half? I find that difficult to believe.
However, translated into raw numbers: If there were 4,000,000 births
(approximately -- give or take one or two) in 1997, that means that 2, 496,000
initiated bf. Of those women, 1,023, 360 continued for 6 months. What I'd
like to know is, WHERE ARE THEY ALL?
Jan Barger - who wouldn't do this number crunching without a calculator.
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