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Table 8 Mean partner engagement score (95% confidence interval) and associated infant feeding patterns and breastfeeding problems, by parity

From: Fathers’ engagement in pregnancy and childbirth: evidence from a national survey

 

Primiparous women

Multiparous women

 

Mean (95% CI)

Adjusted* p

Mean (95% CI)

Adjusted* p

Tried to breastfeed at least once

7.18 (7.08, 7.29)

 

4.95 (4.85, 5.06)

 

Never tried to breastfeed

6.36 (6.05, 6.66)

0.00

4.75 (4.53, 4.97)

0.05

Infant feeding in first few days

    

Breastfeeding only

7.25 (7.13, 7.38)

 

4.95 (4.84, 5.06)

 

Breast and formula

6.98 (6.76, 7.20)

 

4.91 (4.63, 5.20)

 

Formula only

6.61 (6.35, 6.86)

0.00

4.76 (4.56, 4.97)

0.10

Infant feeding at 3 months

    

Formula

6.89 (6.75, 7.03)

 

4.84 (4.71, 4.97)

 

Breastfeeding

7.42 (7.25, 7.58)

 

4.97 (4.81, 5.13)

 

Both formula and breast

7.06 (6.82, 7.30)

 

4.95 (4.70, 5.21)

 

Other

7.67 (5.85, 9.38)

0.00

5.00 (2.68, 7.32)

0.31

Breastfeeding duration

    

didn’t breastfeed

6.44 (6.17, 6.70)

 

4.82 (4.61, 5.03)

 

1-20 days

7.12 (6.88, 7.36)

 

4.82 (4.58, 5.06)

 

21-98 days

6.99 (6.76, 7.22)

 

4.90 (4.67, 5.13)

 

still breastfeeding

7.30 (7.16, 7.43)

0.00

4.96 (4.83, 5.10)

0.25

Of those women breastfeeding: Breastfeeding problems at 10 days

    

Yes

7.22 (7.06, 7.38)

 

5.11 (4.91, 5.31)

 

No

7.20 (7.03, 7.37)

0.86

4.85 (4.71, 4.99)

0.03

  1. *Adjusted for maternal ethnicity, age, IMD. age on leaving full-time education, and father’s country of birth.