Chapter 3. Infant Feeding

Table 3.52. Percent of mothers who used each method to pump or express milk by infant age¹^,², among mothers who pumped at each age Infant Feeding Practices Study II
	Months 0-2	Months 3-5	Months 6-7
Electric breast pump	59.1	58.9	60.5
Combination electric and battery operated pump	17.2	14.9	12.7
Battery operated pump	3.8	2.1	1.7
Manual pump	43.6	34.6	33.3
By hand	15.4	12.5	9.0
N	1,781	1,004	598
¹Table is based on variables: M2D16A-E, M5D15A-E, M7D15A-E ²Column percentages do not add up to 100% because mothers could choose all that apply