The high rates of breastfeeding in this
study are equivalent or even higher to reports on
the breastfeeding duration in term infants from the
United States, Canada, Australia, and several
countries in Europe (Callen & Pinelli, 2004). In addition, because these figures present the incidence of breastfeeding in corrected age, as opposed to postnatal age, the incidence of breastfeeding in VPT at 3 months of corrected age (62%) corresponds to a postnatal age of about 6 months.