NCT06975527

Milk Production and Body Weight Response to Suggested Protocol in Obese Lactating Women

• Status: Not Yet Recruiting
• Phase: N/A
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 72 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Cairo University · Academic / Other
• Sex: Female
• Age: 25 Years – 35 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Accepted

Summary

This study will investigate the milk production and body weight response of both mother and the newborn to aerobic exercise in obese lactating women.

Detailed description

Breastfeeding is a normal method of providing nutrition to young infant by breast milk. Breastfeeding is equally important and beneficial for not only infant but also for the mother. Women with high BMI have delays in establishing lactation after giving birth. In addition, overweight and obesity increase the risk of early cessation of breastfeeding. Aerobic exercises have positive effects on breastfeeding frequency and body weight of neonate and can increase blood flow to the chest which is effective in lactation performance. So, this study will help to evaluate the efficacy of aerobic exercise in addition to guidelines for breastfeeding, nutrition and fluid intake on milk production, baby and mother weight.

Conditions

• Breastfeeding

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
OTHER	Breastfeeding guidelines	All participants will be instructed by the following guidelines: * Hold the breast so the nipple brushes the center of the infant's lips and wait for the infant to open the mouth. * Infant's mouth should be opened wide, as with a yawn and should cover the entire areola, or a large amount of the areola. * Both breasts are used in each feeding, usually 10 to 15 minutes on the first side, followed by burping before beginning the second side. * Break suction by placing finger in the corner of infant's mouth and quickly remove breast. * Apply breast massage before breastfeeding. * The neonate is nursed shortly after birth and approximately every 2 to 3 hours thereafter for a total of 8 to 12 feedings a day. * Lactating women needs about 8 to 10 glasses of fluids per day while breastfeeding. * Caffeine consumption should be limited to 2 cups of coffee, tea or cola per day. * Lactating mother should consume a healthy diet which is varied, balanced, and natural.
OTHER	Aerobic exercise	The participants will be engaged in a supervised moderate aerobic exercise in the form of walking on a treadmill for 40 minutes/ day, 3 days/ week, for 6 weeks beginning 6:8 weeks postpartum. Each exercise session will be divided into 3 phases. The warm-up phase begins with walking at low speed (within resting heart rate) on a treadmill for 5 minutes. The active phase continues for 30 minutes at a moderate intensity of 60 to 70% of maximal heart rate (HRmax). Gradual increase and adjustment of speed will be applied for each woman according to her prescribed intensity based on HRmax. HRmax is calculated by subtracting the age from 220. The program will be terminated with 5 minutes cool-down phase, during which the treadmill speed will be gradually decreased until the heart rate resumes its resting level.

Timeline

• Start date: 2025-05-20
• Primary completion: 2025-08-30
• Completion: 2025-09-10
• First posted: 2025-05-16
• Last updated: 2025-05-16

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Egypt