Stress and Breast Milk Study In the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

Completed

Conditions studied: Breast Feeding, Breast Milk Expression, Stress

In brief

The overall goal of this research is to clarify the relationship between reported maternal stress, biological measures of maternal stress, breast milk biomarkers and milk quantity. Our primary hypothesis is that measures of maternal stress are associated with cortisol, cytokines, and other stress markers in the blood, which impacts breast milk quantity and composition and which may impact infant health.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT03617549

Run by

University of Rochester

People needed

27

Starts

2019-06-01

Expected to finish

2020-03-30

Last updated by the study team

2020-08-03

Who can join

Age: any. Sex: female. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

You may qualify if…

• Baby will remain in mom's legal custody
• Intends to exclusively breastfeed during the NICU stay
• Has kept a daily log of milk expression (pump or hand expression) with date/time/quantity since birth of their child
• Less than 7 days postpartum

You may not qualify if…

• Baby and mother are to be separated due to legal custody issues
• Medical contraindication to breastfeeding
• Non-English speaking
• Unable to answer a written survey in English
• More than 50% of infant intake is not mother's own milk at 4 weeks postpartum

Where it is running

• University of Rochester Medical Center NICU — Rochester, New York, United States

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