Daily Breastmilk Volume in Mothers of Very Low Birth Weight Neonates: A Repeated-Measures Randomized Trial of Hand Expression Versus Electric Breast Pump Expression.

Background: There are no randomized trials comparing early exclusive hand expression (HE) with early exclusive electric pump expression (electric expression [EE]) for milk removal in mothers of very low birth weight (VLBW) infants.

Subjects And Methods: Mothers of VLBW infants were randomized to exclusively HE or EE for the first 7 days postpartum. Daily volumes of milk were compared between groups for the first 28 days, adjusting for repeated measures.

Patterns and predictors of donor human milk non-consent in the neonatal ICU.

Background: Previous research has not evaluated predictors of donor human milk (DHM) non-consent status in a neonatal intensive care unit (ICU) setting within the United States. The purpose of this study is to identify and describe maternal and infant factors associated with DHM consent status in a Level IV inner-city neonatal ICU.

Materials And Methods: Demographics and additional maternal/infant data were stratified by DHM consent and compared with the appropriate parametric/nonparametric hypothesis testing statistic.