A Feasibility Study to Assess Sleep and Subsequent Breast Milk Volume Among Mothers With Hospitalized Preterm Infants.

Background: Sleep is essential for optimal health, and disturbed postpartum sleep is associated with compromised infant attachment. The postpartum experience of mothers with preterm infants is unlike the biological norm, as they are separated from their infants and often express breast milk.

Purpose: The purpose of this study was to examine the feasibility of conducting a clinical research study among women with hospitalized preterm infants.

Enhancing Implementation of Complex Critical Care Interventions through Interprofessional Education.

Many critical care interventions that require teamwork are adopted slowly and variably despite strong evidence supporting their use. We hypothesize that educational interventions that target the entire interprofessional team (rather than professions in isolation) are one effective way to enhance implementation of complex interventions in the intensive care unit (ICU). As a first step toward testing this hypothesis, we sought to qualitatively solicit opinions about team dynamics, evidence translation, and interprofessional education as well as current knowledge, attitudes, and practices surrounding the use of one example of a team-based practice in the ICU-preventive postextubation noninvasive ventilation (NIV).

Integrative Review of Breastfeeding Support and Related Practices in Child Care Centers.

Objective: To synthesize the extant research on the support of breastfeeding and breast milk feeding and related practices in child care centers (i.e., daycare centers) in the United States and globally.

"It gave me so much confidence": First-time U.S. mothers' experiences with antenatal milk expression.

Antenatal milk expression (AME) involves maternal hand-expression, collection, and storage of breast milk during pregnancy for the purposes of reducing the early formula use in breastfed infants. AME is not widely practiced in the United States, despite its growing popularity elsewhere. In this study, we examined the experiences of first-time mothers recruited from a U.

Winging it: maternal perspectives and experiences of breastfeeding newborns with complex congenital surgical anomalies.

Objective: To describe the experience of breastfeeding (inclusive of breast milk expression/pumping, provision of breast milk via devices, and at-breastfeeding) among mothers of newborns with complex congenital surgical anomalies and the contexts under which pro-breastfeeding behaviors and attitudes are facilitated or compromised.

Study Design: We used qualitative description to analyze 23 interviews conducted with 15 mothers of newborns undergoing surgery for gastrointestinal, cardiac, or neural tube defects.

Results: Breastfeeding experiences were characterized by naivety regarding the importance and rationale for exclusive breast milk feedings and best practices to facilitate milk supply maintenance and transition to at-breast feeds.

"I Just Want to Do Everything Right:" Primiparous Women's Accounts of Early Breastfeeding via an App-Based Diary.

Introduction: Our objective was to describe the early breastfeeding experience of primiparous women.

Methods: Healthy, primiparous women intending to exclusively breastfeed downloaded a commercial infant feeding mobile application (app) during their postpartum hospitalization. Women free-texted breastfeeding thoughts and experiences through 8 weeks postpartum in the app's diary.