The Effect Of Breast Milk Sniffing And Tasting On Early Feeding Tips

Sibel Küçükoğlu

Status: Completed

Conditions: Odors, Body; Breastfeeding; Newborn; Vitality

Treatments: Behavioral: Stimulation of Breast Milk Smell and Taste; Behavioral: Breast Milk Odor Stimulation

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT06341153

SelcukUni2542

Details and patient eligibility

About

The study aimed to investigate the effects of breast milk sniffing and breast milk tasting and sniffing on sucking success and early feeding cues in term newborns who were started to breastfeed for the first time.

Full description

In the literature, there are many studies examining the odor effect or odor and taste effect during gavage feeding of premature and low birth weight infants hospitalized in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). However, no study was found to examine the effect of smell and taste application on breastfeeding success and early feeding cues during initiation of breastfeeding for the first time in healthy term newborns. It is clear that sick newborns need much more support and intervention in the transition to oral feeding. However, the low rates of breastfeeding in our country indicate that the use of effective and facilitating methods to initiate and maintain breastfeeding is also necessary for term and healthy infants. Therefore, this study may guide healthcare professionals on the effectiveness of odor and taste stimulation for early breastfeeding and provide ideas for designing new research and projects.

Enrollment: 72 patients

Sex: Female

Ages: 18 to 40 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• For the mother
• Having a term and healthy baby,
• No communication and language problems,
• No maternal illness preventing breastfeeding (active chemotherapy, HIV positive, neurological or psychological problems, etc.),
• Willingness to breastfeed, For the baby;
• Not having a disease condition that prevents breastfeeding (cleft palate, cleft lip, galactotemia, choanal atresia, etc.),
• Being at normal birth weight (2500gr-4000gr),
• Apgar score of 7 and above.

Exclusion criteria

• Under 18 and over 40 years of age,
• Development of postpartum complications (in mother or baby),
• Multiple pregnancy.

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: Single Blind

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72 participants in 3 patient groups

Odor stimulation group

Experimental group

Description:

In the breast milk odor stimulation group, one or two drops of breast milk were placed on a sponge in accordance with the literature. Breast milk was obtained from each infant's own mother by hand expressing. The mothers were asked to express two drops of breast milk from their breasts onto the sponge. The sponge on which the breast milk was dripped was placed as close to the baby's nose as possible without touching the baby's nose. Since breast milk odor stimulation is recommended to be given to the baby for 1 minute in the literature, the baby was allowed to smell the odor of breast milk for 1 minute. The baby was then given to the mother for breastfeeding and breastfeeding was initiated as in routine practice.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Breast Milk Odor Stimulation

Odor + Taste Stimulation Group

Experimental group

Description:

In this group in which the breast milk sniffing method was applied; two drops of breast milk were dripped onto a sponge in accordance with the literature and this sponge was placed as close to the nose as possible without touching the nose and the baby was allowed to smell the smell of breast milk for about 1 minute. Then the baby was given to the mother. The mother was asked to express milk manually and to apply/drip approximately 0.2 ml (approximately two drops) of the expressed colostrum starting from the tip of the baby's tongue, along the tongue surface, on both cheeks of the baby, as applied in studies using oral colostrum as a reference. The mother was also asked to express a drop of milk from her breast and manually apply it to the areola. Breastfeeding was then initiated as in routine practice.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Stimulation of Breast Milk Smell and Taste

Control Group

No Intervention group

Description:

The control group did not receive any intervention other than the routine initiation of breastfeeding at the clinic. They were provided with breastfeeding education by the lactation counselor.