Use of donor human milk and maternal breastfeeding rates: a systematic review

T Williams, H Nair, J Simpson… - Journal of Human …, 2016 - journals.sagepub.com
The number of human milk banks is growing worldwide. The introduction of donor human
milk (DHM) to neonatal units has been advocated as a strategy to promote maternal …

Current trends in research on human milk exchange for infant feeding

AEL Palmquist, MT Perrin… - Journal of Human …, 2019 - journals.sagepub.com
Breastfeeding is critical for the healthy growth and development of infants. A diverse range
of infant-feeding methods are used around the world today. Many methods involve feeding …

Improving human milk and breastfeeding practices in the NICU

K Fugate, I Hernandez, T Ashmeade… - Journal of Obstetric …, 2015 - Elsevier
Objective To determine if systematic implementation of the Spatz Ten Steps for Promoting
and Protecting Breastfeeding for Vulnerable Infants (Ten Steps) would result in an …

[HTML][HTML] Transforming NICU care to provide comprehensive family support

SL Hall, R Phillips, MT Hynan - Newborn and Infant Nursing Reviews, 2016 - Elsevier
Parents whose babies are admitted to neonatal intensive care units (NICUs) are subject to a
variety of stresses that increase their risk to suffer from postpartum depression, posttraumatic …

Donor human milk largely replaces formula-feeding of preterm infants in two urban hospitals

NM Delfosse, L Ward, AJ Lagomarcino, C Auer… - Journal of …, 2013 - nature.com
Objective: To determine acceptance of donor human milk (DM) for feeding preterm infants
and whether offering DM, alters mothers' milk (MM) feeding. Study Design: Infant feeding …

The interaction of donor human milk availability and race/ethnicity on provision of mother's own milk for very low birth weight infants

A Esquerra-Zwiers, ME Schoeny, J Engstrom… - Breastfeeding …, 2021 - liebertpub.com
Objective: To compare (1) differences in mother's own milk (MOM) provision and enteral
feeding outcomes,(2) differences in preterm formula and donor human milk (DHM) uses as …

Sequential interventions to maintain the safety and service provisions of human milk banking in India: keeping up with the call to action in response to the COVID-19 …

M Bhasin, S Nangia, G Kumar, A Parihar… - International …, 2022 - Springer
Background WHO recommends donor milk as the next best choice if Mothers' own milk
(MOM) is unavailable. At our milk bank, during the COVID 19 pandemic, we observed a …

A quality improvement initiative to increase mother's own milk use in a Chinese neonatal intensive care unit

Q Zhou, L Zhang, SK Lee, C Chen, X Hu… - Breastfeeding …, 2020 - liebertpub.com
Background: To evaluate the efficacy of a multidisciplinary quality improvement intervention
to promote mother's own milk feeding and reduce necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC) in very low …

Impact of quality improvement program on expressed breastmilk usage in very low birth weight infants

A Thakur, N Kler, P Garg, A Singh, P Gandhi - Indian Pediatrics, 2018 - Springer
Objective To improve the usage of expressed breast milk in very low birth weight infants
admitted in the neonatal intensive care unit of a tertiary centre in India. Methods Between …

A quality improvement initiative: improving exclusive breastfeeding rates of preterm neonates

A Sethi, M Joshi, A Thukral, J Singh Dalal… - The Indian Journal of …, 2017 - Springer
This study is a single center quality improvement (QI) initiative in a tertiary care neonatal
intensive care unit which was done with an objective to increase the proportion of neonates …