Background: One of the most challenging issues that mothers with premature infants face is the importance of breastfeeding and the ability to initiate and maintain it at the NICU (Neonatal Intensive Care Unit) and after discharge. Breastfeeding a premature infant requires certain skills that differ from a term neonate. Most mother with premature infants experience a new crisis after discharge a...

OBJECTIVE To describe an intervention to provide support and encouragement to mothers of preterm newborns and to evaluate its effect on breastfeeding rates in the first 6 months after hospital discharge. METHODS One hundred newborns and their mothers were selected consecutively and prospectively according to order of birth. The mother-infant dyads were alternately assigned to one of two group...

In family care (FC) program for neonatal intensive care units (NICUs), parents are encouraged to reside together with their infant for 24 hours a day to actively be involved in the care. The aim of this study was to assess the impact of FC on maternal confidence and breast-feeding. Maternal confidence and rate of breast-feeding were assessed in 31 mothers offered FC that included special family...

OBJECTIVES Accompanying guardians (usually the mother) have a pivotal role in promoting recovery from childhood severe acute malnutrition on Nutritional Rehabilitation Units (NRUs). We describe the prevalence of maternal distress at an NRU in Malawi and identify factors associated with this. We tested the hypothesis that maternal distress during admission would be associated with reduced child ...

The risk of continuing depression in mothers of very premature infants after discharge has not been studied in any depth. This study compared reports of maternal depressive symptomatology at one month after infant birth (Phase 1) and three months following infant hospital discharge (Phase 2). Fifty-two mothers completed the Edinburgh Postnatal Depression Scale at these two points in time. Resul...

Ericson, J. 2018. Breastfeeding in mothers of preterm infants. Prevalence and effects of support. Digital Comprehensive Summaries of Uppsala Dissertations from the Faculty of Medicine 1398. 69 pp. Uppsala: Acta Universitatis Upsaliensis. ISBN 978-91-513-0161-7. The overall aim of this thesis was to describe the prevalence of breastfeeding in preterm infants and to evaluate the effectiveness and...

We use administrative data to examine the temporal relationship between maternal incarceration and foster care placement among incarcerated mothers and their children in Cook County, Illinois. We also compare the discharge outcomes of foster children whose mothers were incarcerated to the discharge outcomes of all foster children in Illinois. We found that more than three quarters of the childr...

BACKGROUND The impact of reductions in postpartum length of stay have been widely reported, but factors influencing length of hospital stay after vaginal birth have received less attention. The study purpose was to compare the sociodemographic characteristics and readiness for discharge of new mothers and their newborns at 3 discharge time intervals, and to determine which variables were associ...

OBJECTIVES To describe the pattern of infant feeding at discharge from care after birth and the characteristics of mothers who are at risk of low rates of breastfeeding. METHODS Data were obtained from the NSW Midwives Data Collection for 2007. Information on infant feeding was obtained for babies who were alive at discharge from care after birth. Of 96 030 births reported, 93 505 (97.4%) wer...