Skin-to-skin contact as a protective factor for exclusive breastfeeding at the Belén Hospital in Trujillo
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https://doi.org/10.61651/rped.2024v76n1p2a1-2a10Keywords:
Skin-to-skin contact, Exclusive BreastfeedingAbstract
Objective: Determine if skin-to-skin contact for 60 minutes is a protective factor for exclusive breastfeeding during the first six months of life of children born at the Belén Hospital in Trujillo.
Materials and methods: Retrospective observational study.
Results: Of the 206 patients who participated in the study, 103 of them enjoyed exclusive breastfeeding until 6 months of age. Within this group, it was observed that 91.3% of newborns, that is, 94 babies, experienced skin-to-skin contact at birth. Of the 103 children who were not exclusively breastfed until 6 months of age, 89 (86.2%) did not experience skin-to-skin contact at birth. With these data, an OR of 79.044 IC 95% 27.372 – 161.062 was calculated, which indicates a strong relationship between exclusive breastfeeding until 6 months of age and skin-to-skin contact at the time of birth. In the group of patients who stopped exclusive breastfeeding before 6 months, abandonment of breastfeeding occurred sequentially in the 1st, 2nd, 3rd, 4th and 5th months, with respective percentages of 23.3%, 19.4%, 26.2%, 19.4% and 11.6%. The most frequent reasons for abandoning breastfeeding were: low breast milk production (34%), work reasons (17%), academic reasons (12%), among others. In the multivariate analysis, it was observed that maternal age, gestational age, weight of the newborn, level of maternal education and origin of the mother did not have a significant effect on the dependent variable.
Conclusions: Skin-to-skin contact for 60 minutes is a protective factor for exclusive breastfeeding until children are 6 months old.
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