Breast Milk Content Expressed Manually Compared to Electric Pump

Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center

Status: Completed

Conditions: Infant

Treatments: Procedure: Pump

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT02366780

SD-0662-11-TLV

Details and patient eligibility

About

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.

Enrollment: 50 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 60 years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Healthy lactating mothers of term infants

Exclusion criteria

• HIV infected mothers

Trial design

50 participants in 2 patient groups

Manual expression followed by electric pump

Experimental group

Description:

Mothers will be assigned to first express breast milk manually followed by electric pump

Treatment:

Procedure: Pump

Electric pump followed by manual expression

Experimental group

Description:

Mothers will be assigned to first express breast milk by electric pump followed by manual expression

Treatment:

Procedure: Pump