Antenatal hand expression - An interview with Anita Moorhead

In this episode we talk to Anita Moorhead about all things
antenatal hand expression. Anita is a Clinical Nurse/Midwife
Consultant (for Lactation), at the Royal Women’s Hospital,
Melbourne, a coordinator for the DAME (Diabetes and Antenatal
Milk Expressing) trial and PhD candidate at the Judith Lumley
Centre, La Trobe University, Australia. Anita has collaborated on
breastfeeding papers and reports, hospital, and state clinical
guidelines and is a frequent presenter at national and
international conferences. 


We start our conversation with Anita about the Diabetes and
Antenatal Milk Expressing trial and what was its purpose and why
this was a needed study. Then we delve deeper to ask all those
common and not-so-common questions around the topic of antenatal
hand expression. So in this episode you'll hear us talking
about-
What were the feeding outcomes after women initiated antenatal
hand expression in the DAME trial?
Does antenatal hand expression help with future breast milk
feeding? 
Could antenatal hand expression cause an increase in the number
of babies admitted into the special care nursery after
birth?
Does antenatal hand expression cause earlier birth?
What were the average expressed milk volumes achieved by the
women during the DAME study?
And we take an important deep dive into the psychological aspects
of this practice in relation to the newly published paper looking
at the views and experiences of the women in the DAME trial . We
spoke about what midwives and birth workers should consider in
relation to how women felt about this practice and the milk
volumes they were expressing. 


LINKS:


Dr Rachel Reed - Courses- Books 


Anita Moorhead


Advising women with diabetes in pregnancy to express breastmilk
in late pregnancy (Diabetes and Antenatal Milk Expressing
[DAME]): a multicentre, unblinded, randomised controlled trial


‘Is there any point in me doing this?’ Views and experiences of
women in the Diabetes and Antenatal Milk Expressing (DAME) trial


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