Breastfeeding and skin-to-skin contact as non-pharmacological prevention of neonatal hypoglycemia in infants born to women with gestational diabetes: A Danish quasi-experimental study

摘要

Adr: Barselsafsnit 11, Aalborg University Hospital, Reberbansgade 15, 9000 Aalborg, Denmark. The worldwide incidence of maternal gestational diabetes mellitus (GDM) is increasing and in Denmark, approximately 2.3% of women develop GDM during pregnancy. Their infants are breastfed shorter than the national mean. The practice in Denmark regarding prevention of neonatal hypoglycemia in infants at risk has been ingestion of weight-adjusted formula (60 ml/kg/day the first 12-24 hr starting 1-hr post-partum and repeated every 2 to 3 hr). However, infants seem to have a physiological fall in blood glucose within the first 1 to 3 hr post-partum regardless of feeding (Wight, Marinelli, and Medicine 2014; Csont et al. 2014; Chertok et al. 2009).