Siskind V, Del Mar C, Schofield F
Department of Social and Preventive Medicine, University of Queensland Medical School, Australia.
Am J Public Health. 1993 Jan;83(1):103-6. doi: 10.2105/ajph.83.1.103.
Infant feeding practices were retrospectively ascertained in a random cohort of parous women (mean age 54.8 years) from Brisbane, Australia. Reported proportions of infants who were ever breast-fed fell from around 90% before 1960 to around 70% in the early 1970s, with some subsequent increase. Similar but stronger trends were reported in proportions of infants breast- but not bottle-fed. Few maternal characteristics were associated with feeding practices, but women with more education appear to have led both the early retreat from and the later return to breast-feeding.
通过回顾性研究确定了来自澳大利亚布里斯班的一组随机选取的经产妇(平均年龄54.8岁)的婴儿喂养方式。曾接受母乳喂养的婴儿比例从1960年前的约90%降至20世纪70年代初的约70%,随后有所回升。仅以母乳喂养而非奶瓶喂养的婴儿比例也呈现类似但更明显的趋势。与喂养方式相关的母亲特征很少,但受教育程度较高的女性似乎在早期放弃母乳喂养以及后来回归母乳喂养方面都起到了带头作用。