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Energy Expenditure in Breast and Bottle Feeding Preterm Infants Fed Their Mother's Breast Milk

NCT00838188 · Status: COMPLETED · Type: OBSERVATIONAL · Enrollment: 23

Last updated 2009-02-06

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

OBJECTIVE. Neonatologists consider early feeding at the breast to be too tiring for preterm infants, although there is no evidence that this is actually the case. It is also not known whether the method of feeding affects energy expenditure. We hypothesized that resting energy expenditure (REE) would be higher after breastfeeding than after bottle feeding.

PATIENTS AND METHODS. preterm ( \>32 weeks GA) stable infants who are nourished entirely by their mothers' breast milk will be studied when fed expressed breast milk either by bottle or at the breast. REE will be measured for 20 minutes after feeding. Breast milk quantity is evaluated by pre- and post feeding weighing.

Conditions

  • Preterm Infants

Interventions

OTHER

Way of Feeding - Breast feeding vs. Bottle feeding

Each infant was evaluated twice, once after breastfeeding and once after bottle feeding of breast. Computer-generated random numbers in sealed opaque envelopes to assign the breast/bottle sequence

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Tel-Aviv Sourasky Medical Center

    lead OTHER_GOV

Principal Investigators

  • Irit Berger, MD

Eligibility

Min Age
34 Weeks
Max Age
40 Weeks
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2007-11-30
Completion
2008-03-31

Countries

  • Israel

Study Locations

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