Colostrum and Improved Exclusive Breastfeeding Rate

• Effect of Oral Colostrum Administration Duration on Clinical Outcomes in Preterm Infants: A Randomized Controlled Trial.

  • 2025-12-30
  • RCT · n = 138
  • Breastfeeding medicine : the official journal of the Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine 21(3)
  • • Elif Ceren Oruc
    • Kiymet Celık
    • Sema Arayici
    • Hakan Ongun

  • PubMed: 41467993
  • DOI: 10.1177/15568253251407971

  5 Insights on

  • Improved Exclusive Breastfeeding Rate

  • High evidence
  • Large Human Trial
  • Infants

  The extended colostrum group exhibited the highest exclusive breastfeeding rate at discharge (p = 0.003).

  Effect

  Beneficial

  Effect size

  Small

  Significant

  Yes

  Dose

  extended colostrum for 10 days