Behavior of the Newborn during Skin-to-Skin.

Background: Early skin-to-skin contact (SSC) significantly increases the breastfeeding rate in healthy term infants.

Objective: This study aimed to confirm previously described behavioral sequences during SSC.

Methods: We recorded live and videotaped infant behavioral sequences during SSC in a cohort of healthy term infants, whose outcome was then evaluated.

Physiological weight loss chart helps to identify high-risk infants who need breastfeeding support.

Aim: Healthy, full-term, exclusively breastfed infants are expected to lose weight in the first days after birth, but experts disagree about what constitutes a physiological neonatal weight loss and there is a lack of evidence-based data. Our study aimed to construct a centile chart of neonatal weight loss in a healthy population of exclusively breastfed term neonates.

Methods: We retrospectively studied all infants born at an Italian centre that focused on natural childbirth from April 2007 to December 2012 and who complied with World Health Organization guidance on infant feeding.

Metabolomic profile of term infants of gestational diabetic mothers.

Objective: Maternal diabetes increases the risk of perinatal mortality and morbidity, but the maintenance of antenatal normal glucose serum prevents the majority of neonatal complications. The aim of our study is to compare the metabolomic profile of infants of gestational diabetic mothers (IGDMs) to that of infants of healthy mothers to evaluate if differences remain despite a strict control of gestational diabetes.

Methods: We performed the metabolomics study in cord serum sampled from 30 term IGDMs and 40 controls recording the occurrence of the most frequent complications in IGDMs.