Infant feeding in Queensland, Australia: long-term trends.
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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Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Queensland Medical School, Australia.
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D001903:Bottle Feeding / Q000639:trends*; D001942:Breast Feeding / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D011793:Queensland; D012189:Retrospective Studies