Early skin contact combined with mother’s breastfeeding to shorten the process of premature infants ≤ 30 weeks of gestation to achieve full oral feeding: the study protocol of a randomized controlled trial

Abstract Background Most hospitalized preterm infants experience difficulties in transitioning from tube feeding to full oral feeding. Interventions to promote full oral feeding in preterm infants in the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) are limited to pacifier use or bottle-feeding exercises. Ski...

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Main Authors: Liling Li, Li Wang, Conway Niu, Chan Liu, Tianchan Lv, Futing Ji, Ling Yu, Weili Yan, Ya Lan Dou, Yin Wang, Yun Cao, Guoying Huang, Xiaojing Hu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: BMC 2021-09-01
Series:Trials
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Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-021-05605-x