ovel feeding system to promote the establishment of breastfeeding after preterm birth a randomised controlled trial.
Not Applicable
Completed
- Conditions
- prematurityReproductive Health and Childbirth - Breast feeding
- Registration Number
- ACTRN12614000875606
- Lead Sponsor
- Women's and Newborns' health service, WA
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- Completed
- Sex
- All
- Target Recruitment
- 100
Inclusion Criteria
preterm infants born at 25-34 weeks gestation at King Edward Hospital, Perth, and whose mothers intended to breastfeed
Exclusion Criteria
congenital anomalies, grade 4 intraventricular haemorrhage or preiventricular malacia, oral anomaliess(tongue tie, cleft palate).
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method rates of breastfeeding (any breast-feeding)[discharge from hospital];length of stay in hospital<br>[discharge home];transition from first suck feed (when bottle or breastfeed offered and any sucked e some or all of feed) to full breastfeeds (all breastfeeds). Clinical staff and mothers determined when suck feed either bottle or breast was offered.[when full breastfeeding established]
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method sucking vacuum and tongue movements during suck feeds and measured by ultrasound.<br>[during a suck feed using novel teat and during a breastfeed at a time convenient to mothers and usually in the week before discharge,];frequency of bottle feeding was ascertained by telephone call to mothers.[3, 6 and 12 weeks post discharge from hospital]