Milk Volume at 2 Weeks Predicts Mother's Own Milk Feeding at Neonatal Intensive Care Unit Discharge for Very Low Birthweight Infants.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study sought to determine the maternal prepregnancy, pregnancy, and delivery risk factors that predicted coming to volume (CTV; achieving pumped mother's own milk [MOM] volume ≥500 mLs/day) and the continuation of MOM provision through to discharge from the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) in mothers and their very low birthweight (VLBW; <1,500 g at birth) infants.

Study design

Secondary analysis of prospectively collected data from 402 mothers of VLBW infants admitted to an urban NICU, including detailed MOM pumping records for a subset (51%) of the cohort. Analyses included inverse probability weighting, multivariate regression, and chi-square statistics.

Results

In this high-risk cohort (51.2% black, 27.1% Hispanic, 21.6% white/Asian; 72.6% low in

SUBMITTER: Hoban R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5863077 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature