Effects of the therapeutic breast massage on the amount of breast milk of postpartum women: a randomized trial

Phase 4

Completed

• Conditions: Breast milk; therapeutic breast massage; breast milk; breastfeeding; postpartum

• Registration Number: TCTR20221010005
• Lead Sponsor: /A

Brief Summary

Among postpartum women, the single daily therapeutic breast massage for a day could be not effective for augmenting breast milk volume when compared with non-massage. However, there were no complications after the massage. We supposed that repeated therapeutic breast massage may improve breast milk production.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Completion: 2022-07-11
• Study Start: 2022-10-10
• Last Update Posted: 19 August 2024

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: Completed
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 80

Inclusion Criteria

1. Postpartum women aged 18 years and above,
2. Gestational age at delivery more than 34 weeks
3. No contraindication for breastfeeding and
4. No maternal complications (eg. Postpartum hemorrhage or postpartum sepsis)
5. No neonatal complications that separated mother and baby
6. No history of breast surgery

Exclusion Criteria

1. Receiving pharmacological galactagogues
2. Having neonatal conditions that needed phototherapy

Study & Design

• Study Type: Interventional
• Study Design: Not specified