Literature review for - Flourish Paediatrics

When children were one week old,
88 % were still being breastfed
By the time the children were aged
one month, only 71 %were fully
breastfed, with another 11 per cent
receiving complementary breast
milk.
Rate of full breastfeeding fell to 62
% at age 2 months, 56 % at age 3
months and 46 % at age 4 months.
At 12 months, 28 % of children were
still breastfed; at 18 months, 9 % of
children; and at 24 months, 5
% were still being breastfed.
At 3 months old, 11 % were fed
solids. The percentage of infants on
solids rose to 38 % at 4 months and
62 % at 5 months. At 6 months,
91 % of infants had started solids.
In wave 3; 43 % of infants reported
to be breastfeeding at the time that
children's activities were recorded in
time use diaries
At 51 weeks 95.7% (94.3-97.1) of infants were
regularly receiving solid food
Table 1: Percentage of children breastfed, Australia,
1998‐2001 and 1992‐1995.
Australia
1998‐2001
%
(95% CI)
Australia
1992‐95
%
(95% CI)
At discharge from
hospital
83.3 81.8
(81.5‐85.1) (80.3‐83.3)
Fully breastfed at 13
weeks 57.3 57.1
(54.0‐60.6) (55.4‐58.9)
Fully and partially
breastfed
64.3 62.6
at 13 weeks (61.3‐67.3) (60.8‐64.4)
Fully breastfed at 25
weeks
18.4 18.6
(16.1‐20.7) (17.1‐20.1)
Fully and partially
breastfed
49.0 46.2
at 25 weeks (46.3‐51.6) (44.4‐47.9)
Fully breastfed at 52
weeks
1.2 2.5a
(0.6‐1.9) (1.7‐3.2)
Fully and partially
breastfed
24.9 21.1a
at 52 weeks (21.7‐28.0) (19.4‐22.9)
05; 87.8% (86.0–89.7) initiated
breastfeeding, 64.4 % (61.3–67.5)
breastfeeding at 3 months, 50.4 %
(47.1–53.8) breastfeeding at 6
months, 23.3 (20.0–26.7)
breastfeeding at 12 months
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