Breast Milk Content Expressed Manually Compared to Electric Pump

Not Applicable

Completed

• Conditions: Infant
• Interventions: Procedure: Pump

• Registration Number: NCT02366780
• Lead Sponsor: Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center

Brief Summary

Breast milk is a unique and unmatched nutritional and non-nutritive source of bioactive factors for the health and development of infants.Colostrum, which is produced in low quantities for the first 3 to 4 days after birth, is rich in immunologic components and developmental factors.

Breastfeeding difficulties during the first days of life of an infant are common. Moreover, not all infants can be directly fed at the breast.

Therefore, breast milk feeding at this early stage is initiated and promoted by the expression of breast milk either manually or by use of a pump. Whether the method of milk expression at this stage has a qualitative impact on colostrum is currently unknown.

The purpose of this randomized controlled study is to compare the effect of manual expression with electric pump expression upon the macronutrient composition of breast milk.

Detailed Description

Not available

Study Timeline

• Study Start: 2012-11
• Primary Completion: 2014-08
• Study Completion: 2014-08
• Study First Submitted: 2015-02-04
• Study First Submitted QC: 2015-02-11
• Study First Posted: 2015-02-19
• Status Verified: 2015-09
• Last Update Submitted: 2015-09-02
• Last Update Posted: 2015-09-03

Recruitment & Eligibility

• Status: COMPLETED
• Sex: Female
• Target Recruitment: 50

Inclusion Criteria

• Healthy lactating mothers of term infants

Exclusion Criteria

• HIV infected mothers

Study & Design

• Study Type: INTERVENTIONAL
• Study Design: PARALLEL

Arm && Interventions

Group	Intervention	Description
Electric pump followed by manual expression	Pump	Mothers will be assigned to first express breast milk by electric pump followed by manual expression
Manual expression followed by electric pump	Pump	Mothers will be assigned to first express breast milk manually followed by electric pump

Primary Outcome Measures

Name	Time	Method
Macronutrient content of expressed breast milk	3 to 5 min	Mothers will express milk from the same breast indicated in the assigned arm. Macronutrient content will be analyzed using the Human Milk Analyzer

Trial Locations

Locations (1)

Department of Neonatology, Lis Maternity Hospital, Tel Aviv medical Center; 🇮🇱 Tel Aviv, Israel