2020 North Carolina Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System Survey Results

BREASTFEEDING

What were your reasons for stopping breastfeeding? I THOUGHT MY BABY WAS NOT GAINING ENOUGH WEIGHT1

Demographic
Groups
Total
Respond2
NO YES
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
Total 267 212 78.2 71.4-83.8 55 21.8 16.2-28.6
Age
< 25 years 72 *** *** *** *** *** ***
25-34 years 151 115 75.0 65.4-82.6 36 25.0 17.4-34.6
35+ years 44 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Race/Ethnicity
Non-Hispanic White 122 91 73.3 62.5-81.9 31 26.7 18.1-37.5
Non-Hispanic Black 63 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Non-Hispanic Other 9 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Latina 62 *** *** *** *** *** ***
Education
< High School 41 *** *** *** *** *** ***
High School 65 *** *** *** *** *** ***
> High School 161 129 77.8 69.1-84.6 32 22.2 15.4-30.9
Marital Status
Married 128 101 71.0 60.0-80.0 27 29.0 20.0-40.0
Other 139 111 84.2 75.4-90.2 28 15.8 9.8-24.6
Medicaid recipient
No 113 86 72.3 61.1-81.3 27 27.7 18.7-38.9
Yes 154 126 82.7 73.8-89.1 28 17.3 10.9-26.2
Infant's birth weight
Under 2500 grams 107 86 80.7 71.8-87.3 21 19.3 12.7-28.2
2500+ grams 160 126 78.0 70.3-84.1 34 22.0 15.9-29.7

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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