Breastfeeding strategies following nurslings' hospitalization: a scoping review.
Socorro Alana Ramalho Rocha, Eliane Cristina da Silva Buck, Cintia Bezerra Almeida Costa and 1 others
PMID 41221915WHAT IT FOUND
After a baby is hospitalized, nurses can support breastfeeding with home visits, latch guidance, skin-to-skin, milk expression, restarting breastfeeding and digital follow-up.
This scoping review maps strategies, not proof they work.
Key findings
01The review included 29 studies on strategies to promote and maintain breastfeeding after nursling hospitalization.
02Included studies were grouped into educational and social approaches, family, community and professional support, techniques for resuming breastfeeding, and complementary interventions for milk production.
03Examples of mapped strategies included relactation, translactation, skin-to-skin, milk expression, home or web support, relaxation, music therapy, and galactagogues.
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What it does not show
This review maps what has been studied; it does not show that any strategy works. Only one included study was a randomized clinical trial and one was a cohort study. The authors did not use level of evidence to accept or reject strategies. Only a small number of studies were carried out specifically in Primary Health Care. Some articles were excluded because they were not available in full. The same study could be classified in more than one category.
Declared interests
The authors declared no conflict of interest.
The easy way to misread this
Do not read the listed strategies as evidence that they improve breastfeeding outcomes. This is a systematic scoping review of heterogeneous studies, many of which were protocols, reviews or guidelines, not effectiveness trials.