Orofacial Difficulties in Rooming-in (AMAC)

Fortaleza University

Status: Completed

Conditions: Newborns in Rooming-in; Orofacial Difficulties in Newborns; Maternal Breastfeeding in Newborns

Study type: Observational

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT01051843

AMAC

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to identify the orofacial difficulties during the maternal breastfeeding in rooming-in.

Full description

Cross-sectional and quantitative study with sample consisted of 28 dyad present in rooming-in of the Assis Chateaubriand School Motherhood during August and December of 2009.

Enrollment: 29 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 1 day to 1 month old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• mothers of the newborns participating in the study, regardless of the gender, ethnic and/or age.

Exclusion criteria

• newborns who presented oropharyngelarynx structural abnormality, impossibility to feed by mouth and/or exposed in bilispot.