Abstract
Breastfeeding is associated with maternal and infant medical benefits.1 Infants who deliver during the late preterm period (34+0 to 36+6 weeks’ gestational age) represent more than 70% of preterm births and have increased morbidity in comparison with term infants.2 The role of neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) admission in the decreased breastfeeding rate among these infants is not fully characterized, and previous studies have yielded conflicting results.3,4 In this study, we examine the effect of NICU admission on initiating breastfeeding by hospital discharge among late preterm infants.
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