can early breast feeding reduce pain after normal or caesarean delivery ?

• Register: CTRI
• Last refreshed on: 24 November 2021
• Main ID: CTRI/2015/11/006347
• Date of registration: 06-11-2015
• Prospective Registration: Yes
• Primary sponsor: Deepthi Varghese
• Public title: can early breast feeding reduce pain after normal or caesarean delivery ?
• Scientific title: Impact of breast feeding on postpartum pain after vaginal and caesarean delivery among the multiparous women in a selected hospital
• Date of first enrolment: 07-12-2015
• Target sample size: 70
• Recruitment status: Open to Recruitment
• URL: http://www.ctri.nic.in/Clinicaltrials/pmaindet2.php?trialid=12293
• Study type: Observational
• Study design: Single Arm Trial; Method of generating randomization sequence:Adaptive randomization, such as minimization Method of allocation concealment:Not Applicable Blinding and masking:Not Applicable
• Phase: N/A

Countries of recruitment

India

Contacts

• Name: Savitha Pramilda Cutinho
• Affiliation: Father Muller College of Nursing

• Name: Brincy DSouza
• Affiliation: Father Muller College of Nursing

Key inclusion & exclusion criteria

Inclusion criteria: Multiparous women with

Age above 18 years

Term gestation (more than 37 weeks of gestation)

Prior breastfeeding experience at least with 1 baby

Lactating mothre

Normal vaginal delivery with episiotomy after 12 hours

Lower segmented cesarean delivery after 24 hours

Singleton delivery.


Exclusion criteria: Multiparous women with

Chronic pain

Substance abuse

Classical cesarean incision

Not planning to breastfeed

Psychiatric or cognitive disorders like anxiety or depression

Twins



Age minimum:
Age maximum:
Gender:

Intervention(s)

Control Intervention1: Impact of cesarean incision pain: Pain due cesarean incision. Pain which occurred after delivery. The wound will be sutured in layers and takes few days to heal.
Control Intervention2: Impact of pain due to episiotomy during normal delivery: Epistolary is a type incision in perineal area for easy delivery of baby s head and after delivery wound will be sutured .It will take few days to heal.
Control Intervention3: Cramping pain: Intermittent pain in the lower abdomen occurred 5 minutes before ,during and 5 minutes after breast feeding.
Control Intervention4: Breast Feeding: A neonate sucking from mothers breast after 6-12 hrs after vaginal delivery and 24 hours after cesarean delivery

Primary Outcome(s)

To determine the impact of breastfeeding on incisional, perineal and cramping pain after cesarean and vaginal deliveryTimepoint: 3 days

Secondary Outcome(s)

To make the women aware about their postnatal pains and healthy side effects on the uterus to help in involutionTimepoint: 1 month

Secondary ID(s)

NIL

Source(s) of Monetary Support

Father Muller Medical College Hospital FMCI Kankanady Mangalore 575002

Ethics review

Status: Approved
Approval date: 18/02/2015
Contact:

Father Muller Institutional Ethics Committee