{"id":7547,"date":"2024-02-02T00:01:45","date_gmt":"2024-02-02T00:01:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/?p=7547"},"modified":"2024-02-01T19:25:59","modified_gmt":"2024-02-01T19:25:59","slug":"quickstats-percentage-of-newborns-breastfed-between-birth-and-discharge-from-hospital-by-maternal-age-national-vital-statistics-system-49-states-and-the-district-of-columbia-2021-and-202","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/2024\/02\/02\/7547\/","title":{"rendered":"QuickStats: Percentage of Newborns Breastfed Between Birth and Discharge from Hospital, by Maternal Age \u2014 National Vital Statistics System, 49 States and the District of Columbia, 2021 and 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/73\/wr\/mm7304a6.htm\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone \" src=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/mmwr\/volumes\/73\/wr\/figures\/mm7304a6-F.gif?_=14330\" width=\"476\" height=\"275\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Among 49 states and the District of Columbia, the percentage of newborns breastfed between birth and discharge from the hospital increased from 83.3% in 2021 to 85.2% in 2022.<\/p>\n<p>Increases were observed for each maternal age group; the largest increases occurred among younger maternal age groups (70.4% to 74.5% among mothers aged &lt;20 years and 77.6% to 80.8% among mothers aged 20\u201324 years).<\/p>\n<p>Despite the recent increases in initiation of breastfeeding at birth among younger mothers, older mothers were still more likely to breastfeed their newborns (86.8% of those aged \u226540 years versus 74.5% of mothers aged &lt;20 years).<\/p>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b>\u00a0National Center for Health Statistics, National Vital Statistics System, Natality Data, 2021 and 2022.\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/births.htm\">https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/nvss\/births.htm<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Among 49 states and the District of Columbia, the percentage of newborns breastfed between birth and discharge from the hospital increased from 83.3% in 2021 to 85.2% in 2022. Increases were observed for each maternal age group; the largest increases occurred among younger maternal age groups (70.4% to 74.5% among mothers aged &lt;20 years and<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":277,"featured_media":7548,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63673,53752],"tags":[64374],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/277"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7547"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7547\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7549,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7547\/revisions\/7549"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7548"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.cdc.gov\/nchs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}