Does upright feeding position of 3 month old infants reduce respiratory and ear morbidity during the following year?
The investigators examined the influence of teaching mothers to feed infants with their head in an upright position and evaluated the infant ear and respiratory morbidity during a one-year follow-up. Mothers of 88 infants born during 2011 were instructed by trained nurses at Maternal-Child-Health clinics to feed their infants with their head in upright position (intervention group). The control group consisted of 75 mothers of infants of similar socioeconomic background who fed their infant regularly without any instructions and were followed at another Maternal-Child-Health clinic. Feeding position was evaluated at the beginning and the end of the study, and morbidity data of both groups were evaluated at every 3-month follow-up meeting. The study was part of the PhD thesis of Efrat Danino, Head Nurse of Pediatric Department at Hadassah Medical Organization.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NON_RANDOMIZED
Purpose
PREVENTION
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
163
Bottle feeding of infants with their head in upward and not supine head position
Hadassah Medical Organization, Jerusalem, Israel
Jerusalem, Israel
Infant morbidity
respiratory (cough, wheezing, physician diagnosed bronchitis or pneumonia), ear (OM, SOM), prolonged fever, use of antibiotics and inhalations.
Time frame: every 12 weeks visit to Mother Child Health clinic until end of 1 year follow up
Feeding position angle
description of feeding position angle
Time frame: at beginning and end of study (1 year follow up)
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