Status:
COMPLETED
Energy Expenditure in Breast and Bottle Feeding Preterm Infants Fed Their Mother's Breast Milk
Lead Sponsor:
Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
Conditions:
Preterm Infants
Eligibility:
All Genders
34-40 years
Brief Summary
OBJECTIVE. Neonatologists consider early feeding at the breast to be too tiring for preterm infants, although there is no evidence that this is actually the case. It is also not known whether the meth...
Detailed Description
Most VLBW infants cannot be fed at the breast upon birth, and expressed breast milk by gastric tube is thus recommended. Sucking skills mature at around 34 weeks when nipple-feeding is introduced. In ...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Thermally stable infants were nursed in an open and unwarmed bassinet.
- All fed solely by their mothers' breast milk equivalent to at least 150 cc/kg/day divided into eight meals and growing steadily
Exclusion
- Infants with congenital anomalies and infants who had either more than five daily episodes of apnea of prematurity or any apnea requiring assistance or methylxanthine therapy
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
November 1 2007
Trial Type :
OBSERVATIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
March 1 2008
Estimated Enrollment :
23 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT00838188
Start Date
November 1 2007
End Date
March 1 2008
Last Update
February 6 2009
Active Locations (2)
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1
Department of Neonatology, Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center
Tel Aviv, Israel
2
Sourasky Medical Center
Tel Aviv, Israel