Many mothers wonder how much expressed breastmilk they need to have available if they are away from baby. In exclusively breastfed babies, milk intake increases quickly during the first few weeks of life, then stays about the same between one and six months (though it likely increases short term during growth spurts).
The steps involved in calculating the consumer price index and the inflation rate, in order are: Fix the basket, find the prices, compute the basket's cost, choose a base year and compute the index, and compute the inflation rate.
NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- A key index of prices paid by consumers showed the largest year-over-year decline since April 1950, primarily due to sinking energy prices, the government said Wednesday. The Consumer Price Index, the Labor Department's key measure of inflation, has fallen 1.3% over the past year.