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.
The consumer price index rose 0.1% in January, down from the 0.2% increase the previous month, the Labor Department said Thursday. During the 12 months ending in January, prices increased 1.6%. That was the same annual rate as in December and below the Federal Reserve's target of 2%.