The effect of breast feeding on mortality and weight gain in small for gestational age infants.

Nadia Adel Khesro; Mahmood Abdulrazzaq Mahmood

Volume : VII, Issue : V, May - 2017

The effect of breast feeding on mortality and weight gain in small for gestational age infants.

Nadia Adel Khesro, Mahmood Abdulrazzaq Mahmood

Abstract :

Background Small for gestational age as a term is used to define infant with a weight below 10th percent for gestational age or more than 2 standarddeviations below mean for gestational age.The highest incidence of the adverse perinatal outcomes may be contributed to the intrauterine growth restricted infants. AIM OF THE STUDY: To study the effect of east feeding on outcome and weight gain in small for gestational age infants. Methodology: A cross sectional study was carried on 61 small for gestational age New born< 1 week admitted to Neonatal Intensive Care Unit in Pediatric AL–ILWIYA Hospital in Baghdad and interviewed with mother by using detailed questionnaire Result: The fatality rate for small for gestational age infants was 31.9%. The lowest death rate was found in east fed neonates. In addition, the mean value for percent changes in body weight after two weeks compared to first week after birth was significantly higher to small for gestational age depending oneast fed compared with other type of feeding. Conclusion: this study strengthen the importance of east feeding for small for gestational age infants since the weight gain in east fed neonates was higher compared to bottle or to mixed fed neonates and improving their outcome.