One study of women at high risk for not breastfeeding found that those who made plans to return to full- time work during the month be- fore actually doing so had 1.34 times the odds of terminating breastfeeding as mothers who, during the same month, did not plan to return to work. In the month she returns to work,
a mother has 2.18 times the odds of quitting breastfeeding as do her nonworking counterparts; in the first month after she starts work, her odds of terminating breastfeeding are 1.32 times that of her nonworking counterparts. However, in the second month after returning to work, her odds of terminating breastfeeding do not differ significantly from those of a woman not working in the same month postpartum.