NCT02366780

Breast Milk Content Expressed Manually Compared to Electric Pump

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 50 (actual)
• Sponsor: Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center · Other Government
• Sex: Female
• Age: 18 Years – 60 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

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.

Conditions

• Infant

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
PROCEDURE	Pump	Breast milk expression using manually or using an electric pump

Timeline

• Start date: 2012-11-01
• Primary completion: 2014-08-01
• Completion: 2014-08-01
• First posted: 2015-02-19
• Last updated: 2015-09-03

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Israel