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Ever breastfed in Alaska

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Ever breastfed

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Note: Non-consecutive years appear adjacent in the trend line
because one or more years have been deselected.

Definitions: The percentage of resident persons with a live birth who reported ever breastfeeding or pumping breast milk to feed their baby.
Did you ever breastfeed or pump breast milk to feed your new baby after delivery, even for a short period of time?

Data Source: Alaska Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) for 2012-2020, Alaska Department of Health

Footnotes: *Data may be unreliable. Number of respondents was at least 30 but less than 60.
The percentages reported above have been produced by weighting the survey results so that estimates better represent the Alaska population. 

Updated June 2022