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American Journal of Public Health, Vol. 83, Issue 1 103-106, Copyright © 1993 by American Public Health Association

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Infant feeding in Queensland, Australia: long-term trends.

V Siskind, C Del Mar and F Schofield

Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Queensland Medical School, Australia.

Infant feeding practices were retrospectively ascertained in a random cohort of parous women (mean age 54.8 years) from Brisbane, Australia. Reported proportions of infants who were ever breast-fed fell from around 90% before 1960 to around 70% in the early 1970s, with some subsequent increase. Similar but stronger trends were reported in proportions of infants breast- but not bottle-fed. Few maternal characteristics were associated with feeding practices, but women with more education appear to have led both the early retreat from and the later return to breast-feeding.






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