Effect Of Early Feeding Practices And Mode Of Delivery On Neonatal Jaundice

Abstract

Jaundice is the most common and ot1e of the most annoying problems that can occur it1 the newborn infants during the immediate postnatal period. Despite the numerous articles published on this subject, many aspects of neonatal hyperbilirubinemia !emain unexplained.

In particular, there is debate on the effect of infant feeding practices on the development of significant hyperbilirubinemia in the first days of life .

The aim of the current work is to study the relationship between feeding practices in the early neonatal period and the development of neonatal jaundice , also to study the association between the mode of delivery and the neonatal jaundice .

The study included 200 healthy full-term newborn infants delivered in Kafr Shokr Central Hospital from 1811 /2005 to 18/4/2005 . They were divided into two groups : 1) Group I included I 00 full term newborns delivered by normal

vaginal delivery , which were subdivided into : group I a (fifty mother

- infant dyads who were suppmied to exclusively breastfeed ) , and group I b (fifty mother - infant dyads who were not exclusively breastfeed ) .