2020 North Carolina Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System Survey Results

BREASTFEEDING

What were your reasons for stopping breastfeeding? MY NIPPLES WERE SORE, CRACKED OR BLEEDING1

Demographic
Groups		 Total
Respond2		 NO YES
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
Total 268 223 82.0 75.5-87.1 45 18.0 12.9-24.5
Age
< 25 years 74 63 88.5 77.1-94.6 11 11.5 5.4-22.9
25-34 years 151 123 78.8 69.3-85.9 28 21.2 14.1-30.7
35+ years 43 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Race/Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White 125 102 78.5 68.0-86.2 23 21.5 13.8-32.0
Non-Hispanic Black 62 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Non-Hispanic Other 9 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Latina 61 56 90.2 77.8-96.1 *** *** ***
Education
< High School 40 *** *** *** *** *** ***
High School 66 53 89.5 78.0-95.3 13 10.5 4.7-22.0
> High School 162 138 80.1 71.0-86.8 24 19.9 13.2-29.0
Marital Status
Married 128 108 80.2 69.8-87.6 20 19.8 12.4-30.2
Other 140 115 83.5 74.4-89.7 25 16.5 10.3-25.6
Medicaid recipient
No 112 95 78.4 67.2-86.6 17 21.6 13.4-32.8
Yes 156 128 84.6 76.4-90.3 28 15.4 9.7-23.6
Infant's birth weight
Under 2500 grams 109 92 82.5 73.4-88.9 17 17.5 11.1-26.6
2500+ grams 159 131 81.9 74.6-87.5 28 18.1 12.5-25.4

1Asked only of mothers who breastfed their baby after delivery, but are not currently breastfeeding their baby. Mothers could cite more than one reason for not breastfeeding their new baby.
2Use caution in interpreting cell sizes less than 50.

*** This estimate was suppressed because it did not meet statistical reliability standards.
N = Cell Size, % = Percentage, C.I.(95%) = Confidence Interval (at 95 percent probability level).

The percentages shown are weighted percentages, designed to reflect the entire population of North Carolina women having a live birth.
The overall weighted response rate in 2020 was 45%.

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