None listed
Conditions
Brief summary
Infants of women with diabetes in pregnancy have an increased risk of low blood sugar and other complications after birth and of developing diabetes and being obese later in life. Many maternity providers encourage these women to express breast milk before birth to have it available if the infant needs supplementary feeding. Evidence for this practice is lacking so we are planning the first study exploring the safety and effectiveness of antenatal expression of breast milk in late pregnancy for women with diabetes in pregnancy.
Interventions
Women with diabetes in pregnancy who are intending to breastfeed will commence twice daily antenatal milk expressing from 36 weeks gestation until birth.
Sponsors
Judith Lumley Centre, La Trobe University
Study design
Allocation
Randomised controlled trial
Intervention model
Parallel
Primary purpose
Treatment
Masking
Open (masking not used)
Eligibility
Sex/Gender
All
Age
0 to No maximum
Healthy volunteers
No
Inclusion criteria
Any woman with pre-existing or gestational diabetes; between 34 and 36 weeks gestation; with a singleton pregnancy in a cephalic presentation; attending the study sites for pregnancy care as a public patient; planning to breastfeed and able to speak , read and write in English
Exclusion criteria
Women -any history of antepartum haemorrhage, or placenta praevia -an unknown or classical caesarean section scar or more than one lower uterine segment caesarean section scar -any suspicion of fetal compromise - a known fetal abnormality.
Outcome results
None listed