The ideal food for healthy term babies as well as preterm babies and sick term babies is breast milk. There are many studies showing that the composition of breast milk can vary from mother to mother, according to the baby's gestational age and gender. New studies on the content of breast milk suggest that breast milk is different during the day and at night, that micro and macronutrient content, hormones and some enzymes are secreted at different levels at different times of the day and that breast milk has a circadian rhythm. This study was designed as a prospective, randomized, controlled study. The study will be conducted to evaluate the effect of the Chronobiological Approach Feeding Model application on the baby's sleep characteristics and physiological conditions in preterm babies hospitalized in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU). The simple randomization method will be used in the study and the babies will be divided into intervention (n=30) and control (n=30) groups. The study was conducted with 60 infants followed in the neonatal intensive care unit. The milk of the intervention group patients will be given to the babies by matching them circadianly , while the milk of the control group patients will be given without matching according to clinical routine practice. Demographic data and sleep measurements (time and quality) of all infants will be recorded in the "Baby Monitoring Form" created by the researcher.
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Sleep time
Timeframe: 24 hour
Crying time
Timeframe: 24 hour