Disparities in Donor Human Milk Supplementation Among Well Newborns.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Donor human milk supplementation for healthy newborns has increased. Racial-ethnic disparities in supplementation have been described in the neonatal intensive care unit but not in the well newborn setting.

Research aim

The aim of this study was to identify maternal characteristics associated with donor human milk versus formula supplementation in the well newborn unit.

Methods

This retrospective cohort study includes dyads of well newborns and their mothers (N = 678) who breastfed and supplemented with formula (n = 372) or donor human milk (n = 306) during the birth hospitalization at a single hospital in the midwestern United States. Maternal characteristics and infant feeding type were extracted from medical records. Chi-square and l

SUBMITTER: Kair LR 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC7015767 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature