NCT03181269

Human Milk and Infant Intestinal Microbiome Study

• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 6 (actual)
• Sponsor: University of Virginia · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: —
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study will explore the effects of skin-to-skin contact (SSC) between mothers and their babies on the infant intestinal microbiome, the maternal skin microbiome and the breast milk microbiome. This will be accomplished by administering an intervention education session to one group and a placebo education session to the second group in order to influence the magnitude of total SSC defined by the frequency and duration of contact time between the two groups.

Conditions

• Breast Feeding
• Human Microbiome

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Intervention education	An education package that includes an enhanced emphasis on maternal-infant skin-to-skin contact and a detailed activity log for recording early post-partum care practices that includes specific skin-to-skin contact time and frequency goals.
OTHER	Placebo Education	An education package that includes a basic emphasis on maternal-infant skin-to-skin contact, as well as other general post-partum care practices and a general early post-partum care practices log without specific skin-to-skin contact goals.

Timeline

• Start date: 2017-07-27
• Primary completion: 2018-12-20
• Completion: 2018-12-20
• First posted: 2017-06-08
• Last updated: 2018-12-21

Locations

1 site across 1 country: United States