Separate Care for New Mother and Infant Versus Rooming-in for Increasing the Duration of Breastfeeding
There is insufficient evidence from randomised controlled trials to assess the effect of mother-infant separation versus rooming-in for increasing duration of breastfeeding. Level of evidence: "D"Summary
A Cochrane review [Abstract] 1 included 1 study with a total of 176 subjects. Exclusive breastfeeding before discharge from hospital (at day 4 postpartum) was significantly lower in the separate care group compared with the rooming-in group (RR 0.58; 95% CI 0.42 to 0.81; one trial, n=141). The overall median duration of any breastfeeding was 4 months, there was no significant difference between the groups.
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Date of latest search:30 May 2016
References
- Jaafar SH, Lee KS, Ho JJ. Separate care for new mother and infant versus rooming-in for increasing the duration of breastfeeding. Cochrane Database Syst Rev 2012;(9):CD006641 [Assessed as up-to-date: 30 May 2016]. [PubMed]
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