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GOT MILK?Improving the Knowledge and Confidence of Breastfeeding
Mothers in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit.Dr Kiran Rahim1
Homerton Univeristy Hospital
PROBLEM
• The UK has one of the lowest breastfeeding rates in the world.
• Mothers can experience anxiety and feel unsupported by healthcare professionals
• The advice is often incorrect, unstructured and not evidence based.
BACKGROUND
• Breastfeeding contributes to the short and long term health of both mother and child.
• NICE recommends that women should be made aware of these benefits and those that choose to breastfeed should be SUPPORTED by a service that is structured and evidence based!
AIM Improve the knowledge and confidence of breastfeeding mothers on the Neonatal Unit over the next four months.
Measures• Confidence of mothers in
breastfeeding/expressing on a scale of 1 to 5
• Knowledge of mothers on benefits of breastfeeding on a scale of 1 to 5.
Change Ideas• Information sheet in
expressing room• Interactive
breastfeeding session at the parents coffee morning
PDSA
PLAN
DO
STUDY
ACT
The Big D: DATA! Those Who Reflect, LEARN!• I was driven by own experiences on NICU to
improve the confidence and knowledge of breastfeeding mothers on NICU.
• Mothers demonstrated substantial growthin both knowledge and confidence once they had the right SUPPORT in place and when they felt LISTENED to.
• We need to continue to develop an evidencebased and supportive breastfeeding service !
Contact email: [email protected]: Dr Emma Parish, Nikki Davey, Kate, our lovely
breastfeeding Nurse and Dr Swee Fang for their help and advice with this project