Midwifery Conference 2022

Anna Levadnaya

neonatologist, blog doctor_annamama, Luxembourg

Title: The Device for Alternative Feeding of Newborns with Expressed Milk or Milk Formula

Abstract

The impact of maternity hospital support on successful breastfeeding cannot be underestimated. Complementary feeding may affect breastfeeding through incorrect latch on when returning to breastfeeding after bottle feeding. In order to maintain successful breastfeeding, infants in the early lactation phase need to have safe alternative methods of supplementation that do not interfere with breastfeeding and increase the likelihood of future breast rejection. The new newborn supplementer (Dr. Schneiderman's nozzle) is a convenient and comfortable alternative way to supplement a newborn baby with expressed breast milk or adapted formula. The device allows you to conveniently express breast milk and supplement the baby without the formation of pathological "bottle" habits of breast capture, which will allow in the future to increase the proportion of successful breastfeeding both in a hospital and at home. According to our studies, breastfeeding by 6 months was significantly more frequent among children who received supplementary feeding through a syringe with a nozzle than through a bottle. The choice of supplementary feeding method should be determined not only on the basis of cost, ease of use, availability and maternal preference, but also on the potential negative impact on subsequent breastfeeding.
The new device could become an important tool in the clinical practice of neonatologists, lactation consultants, pediatric nurses and breastfeeding mothers to increase the success rate of breastfeeding.

Biography

Anna Levadnaya is a pediatrician, neonatologist, PhD.
Her science interest is focused on the composion of breast milk, role of breastfeeding in infants health and ways of influencing on breastfeed frequency.
She is also a blogger with more then 2,1 million followers, her blog is about pediatrics: https://www.instagram.com/doctor_annamama/
She was a chief of department nutritional technologies in National Medical Research Center of Obstetrics, Gynecology and Perinatology named after V.I.Kulakov http://ncagp.ru in Russia.
But she was fired because of her post in Instagram in support of Ukrania and peace.
Currently she is living in Luxembourg