CompletedNot Applicable

Stress and Breast Milk Study In the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit

United States27 participantsStarted 2019-06-01

Plain-language summary

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.

Who can participate

SexFEMALE

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Inclusion Criteria: * 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 Exclusion Criteria: * 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

What they're measuring

Correlation between secretory IgA levels in mother's serum and reported stress

Timeframe: baseline

Correlation between secretory IgA levels in mother's serum and reported stress

Timeframe: 1 month

Trial details

NCT IDNCT03617549

SponsorUniversity of Rochester

Sponsor typeOTHER

Study typeOBSERVATIONAL

Primary completion2020-03-30

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