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Table 3 Means or frequency for breastfeeding planning, antenatal breastfeeding support, sleep quantity/quality for four ‘fully breastfeeding’ groups

From: Predictors of breastfeeding duration in a predominantly Māori population in New Zealand

 

Full breastfeeding stopped before 4 weeks N = 95

Full breastfeeding stopped at/after 4 weeks but before 13 weeks N = 31

Full breastfeeding stopped at/after 13 weeks but before 26 weeks N = 33

Full breastfeeding stopped at/after 26 weeks N = 28

OR (95% CI)

p

Days before birth of child Mean (sd))

47 (25)

47 (24)

50 (23)

55 (25)

 

0.391

Plan to feed baby

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

n (%)

  

No

14 (18)

0 (0)

1 (4)

0 (0)

  

Yes

81 (82)

31 (100)

32 (96)

28 (100)

15 (2, 118)

0.009

Plan to breastfeed (weeks) Mean (sd)a

29 (22)

34 (20)

40 (27)

41 (24)

1.02 (1.00,1.03)

0.012

Breast fed as baby

 Yes

68 (72)

20 (65)

24 (73)

22 (79)

  

 No

17 (18)

6 (19)

4 (12)

3 (11)

1.41 (0.66, 3.00)

0.368

 Unsure

10 (11)

5 (16)

5 (15)

3 (11)

1.13 (0.51, 2.51)

0.758

Partner support (antenatal)

 

 Neutral/no support

23 (27)

6 (21)

4 (13)

2 (8)

  

 Strongly supportive

63 (73)

23 (79)

27 (87)

24 (92)

2.42 (1.15, 5.11)

0.02

Mother support (antenatal)

 Neutral/no support

25 (26)

7 (22)

7 (21)

2 (7)

  

 Strongly supportive

70 (74)

24 (77)

26 (79)

26 (93)

1.87 (0.96, 3.66)

0.067

 Sleep Quantity Mean (sd)

2.6 (0.78)

2.8 (0.73)

2.4 (0.87)

2.6 (0.80)

1.01 (0.72. 1.42)

0.939

 Sleep Quality Mean (sd)

2.8 (0.66)

2.9 (0.72)

2.9 (0.61)

2.9 (0.68)

1.22 (0.81, 1.83)

0.349

  1. Proportional odds models were used to analyse the data
  2. aBased on 66 participants in first group, 29 in the second, 24 in the third and 23 in the fourth