Results: Breastfeeding and Infant Feeding Practices

Infant Feeding Practices Study II (IFPS II)

About 300 web tables were created to describe the preliminary findings from IFPS II. Generally speaking, the tables were constructed by the order of questions in each questionnaire and grouped under a total of 9 different chapters. Chapter 1 presents the topics covered in the prenatal survey conducted during the last trimester of pregnancy; Chapter 2 presents the topics covered in the neonatal survey conducted during the 1st month after birth; and Chapters 3 − 9 present the topics covered in multiple surveys with each chapter focusing on a different theme. Since many topics in the post-neonatal surveys were repeated across surveys, tables in Chapters 3 − 9 generally show results from the same questions over time. In order to keep each table in one place only, the repeated prenatal or neonatal data were pulled out from Chapter 1 and 2 and included in the longitudinal tables in later chapters.

• Introduction [PDF-96KB]
• Outline of Web Tables Content [PDF-547KB]
• Chapter 1. Prenatal Survey [PDF-4.3MB]
• Chapter 2. Neonatal Survey [PDF-4.9MB]
• Chapter 3. Infant Feeding [PDF-8.1MB]
• Chapter 4. Infant Health [PDF-1.3MB]
• Chapter 5. Mothers’ Health and Dietary Practices [PDF-629KB]
• Chapter 6. Sources of Information [PDF-137KB]
• Chapter 7. Employment and Day Care [PDF-1.4MB]
• Chapter 8. Sleeping Arrangement [PDF-420KB]
• Chapter 9. Measures of the National Breastfeeding Awareness Campaign [PDF-224KB]

Year Six Follow-Up Study

Results

The Year Six Follow-Up (Y6FU) study data were used to examine the long-term outcomes of infant feeding practices. A special Pediatrics supplement was published on Sept 1, 2014. The studies included in the 2014 Pediatrics supplement examine the associations between early feeding practices and dietary and health outcomes at age six years by linking the data from IFPS II to its Y6FU.