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Table 3 Breast feeding/expressing breast milk for women with a baby alive at one year

From: Cord pilot trial, comparing alternative policies for timing of cord clamping before 32 weeks gestation: follow-up for women up to one year

 

Clamp ≥2 min + neonatal care with cord intact

(n = 122)

Clamp ≤20 s + neonatal care after clamping

(n = 112)

ever breast fed/expressed

119 (98%)

104 (93%)

median weeks from birth to stopping breastfeeding/expressinga, Kaplan Meier survival estimates [95% CI]

16 [13 to 20]

12 [11 to 16]

  1. aClamp ≥2 min + neonatal care with cord intact (n = 119) Clamp ≤20 s + neonatal care after clamping (n = 103)