CDC's Recommendation To Separate COVID-19 Positive Mothers From Their Infants Is Baseless, Health Experts Say.
Here’s what the experts argue against separating the mother and the infant:
- Newborns should be breastfed frequently to be benefitted as well as to establish breastfeeding habits.
- The breast milk is enriched with antibodies and it is important that a newborn is breastfed and this is not the time to risk newborns being artificially fed.
- Maternal-infant bonding via performing skin-to-skin and early breastfeeding initiation is very important and these benefits outweigh the risk of infection.
- Infection exposure can be reduced with proper hand hygiene and maternal masking.
- The WHO recommendations and guidelines are more practical and it allows and supports breastfeeding. It allows ‘more close, intimate contact’ since it recognizes that it might be feasible to separate a newborn from his/her mother in a hospital but once the baby goes home, he/she can be exposed.
CDC's Recommendation To Separate COVID-19 Positive Mothers From Their Infants Is Baseless, Health Experts Say.
Here’s what the experts argue against separating the mother and the infant:
- Newborns should be breastfed frequently to be benefitted as well as to establish breastfeeding habits.
- The breast milk is enriched with antibodies and it is important that a newborn is breastfed and this is not the time to risk newborns being artificially fed.
- Maternal-infant bonding via performing skin-to-skin and early breastfeeding initiation is very important and these benefits outweigh the risk of infection.
- Infection exposure can be reduced with proper hand hygiene and maternal masking.
- The WHO recommendations and guidelines are more practical and it allows and supports breastfeeding. It allows ‘more close, intimate contact’ since it recognizes that it might be feasible to separate a newborn from his/her mother in a hospital but once the baby goes home, he/she can be exposed.
