2020 North Carolina Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System Survey Results
BREASTFEEDING
Reasons for not breastfeeding1
Reasons   Total Respondent NO YES
N % C.I.(95%) N % C.I.(95%)
Was sick or on medicine 91 70 79.6 68.3-87.6 21 20.4 12.4-31.7
Other children to take care of 91 73 81.0 68.9-89.1 18 19.0 10.9-31.1
Too many household duties 89 83 95.3 86.8-98.4 6 4.7 1.6-13.2
Tried but it was too hard 94 71 72.1 59.7-81.8 23 27.9 18.2-40.3
Did not like breastfeeding 92 69 74.0 61.3-83.7 23 26.0 16.3-38.7
Did not want to breastfeed 93 54 54.4 41.8-66.4 39 45.6 33.6-58.2
Went back to school 90 87 98.5 94.9-99.6 3 1.5 0.4-5.1
Went back to work 89 74 85.4 74.4-92.2 15 14.6 7.8-25.6
Other unspecified reasons 95 72 74.1 62.0-83.4 23 25.9 16.6-38.0
1Asked only of mothers that did not breastfeed their baby after delivery. Mothers could cite more than one reason for not breastfeeding their new baby.
#Use caution in interpreting cell sizes less than 50.
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.