معارف الأمهات واتجاهاتهن تجاه المحافظة على تدفق حليب الثدي خلال رقود اطفالهن حديثي الولادة عالي الخطورة

Mothers’ Knowledge and Attitudes toward Maintaining Breast Milk Flow during Hospitalization of their High-Risk Neonates

Prematurity with hospitalization after birth raises barriers for an adequate breast-milk flow mother and child are separated to allow necessary medical treatment of the infant. Due to immaturity, sucking is poor, and expression of breast milk is necessary for several weeks before the infant can be breastfed.
To assess mothers’ knowledge and attitudes toward maintaining breast milk flow during hospitalization of their high-risk neonates.
A descriptive (non-probability) study was conducted on 100 mothers having child high risk neonate in Holy Kerbala City from the period of 26th September 2022 to 19th Jun 2023. The study was carried out in three hospitals that includes Obstetrics and Gynecology Teaching Hospital, Kebala Children’s Teaching Hospital, and Al-husseiniya General Hospital. The credibility of the questionnaire was investigated through submitted to experts to prove its validity and pilot study to prove reliability. The sample was collected using a questionnaire filled out by the mothers participating in the study and analyzed by application SPSS version 25.
According to findings most of mothers’ participants in the study are within the age groups of (20-25) and (above 30) years of age represented (33%) respectively, (22%) of mothers cannot read and write, the majority of mothers were housewives (74%) and resident in urban area (60%), also half participant (58%) was with some enough what as economic status, and most of mothers with normal delivery birth (63%). Furthermore, (41%) of participants have two to three births.
The women demonstrated a moderate level of knowledge and negative attitudes toward maintaining breast milk flow.