Effect of Smearing of Breast Milk on Breast Crawl among Newborn Baby

摘要

A baby is blessed with many instinctive abilities which enable her to perform the Breast Crawl. With all these innate programs, the infant seems to come into life carrying a small computer chip with the set of instructions. Objective of study were to assess effectiveness of smearing of breast milk on breast crawl and to compare effectiveness of smearing of breast milk between experimental & control group. A experimental study done on 60 sample & 30 of each group were selected from full term newborn babies delivered vaginally, in IMS & SUM Hospital, Bhubaneswar. The result found that mean & SD score regarding smearing of breast milk on breast crawl in experimental group was 3.4 + 0.56 & in control group mean score was 2.92 ± 0.71 and the unpaired t- test value of smearing of breast milk on breast crawl was 0.00122. Studies statistically found significant and positive effects of smearing of breast milk on breast crawl.