Early skin contact combined with mother's breastfeeding to shorten the process of premature infants ≤ 30 weeks of gestation to achieve full oral feeding: the study protocol of a randomized controlled trial.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Most hospitalized preterm infants experience difficulties in transitioning from tube feeding to full oral feeding. Interventions to promote full oral feeding in preterm infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) are limited to pacifier use or bottle-feeding exercises. Skin contact has been shown to be beneficial to start and maintain lactation and provide preterm infants with the opportunity to suck on the mother's breast, which may promote further development of the preterm infant's suckling patterns. The objective of this study is to compare and evaluate the effects of skin contact combined with breastfeeding (suck on the mother's empty breast) as compared to the routine pacifier suckling training model in achieving full oral feeding for infants whose gestation

SUBMITTER: Li L 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8447630 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature