Assessment of effect of mother consulting on weighting of low birth weight neonate

Low birth weight (LBW) is the most common problem that is considered as the only means of measuring the outcome of pregnancy. This research was designed in order to evaluating the effect of mother consulting on weight gain of low birth weight neonate in the educational hospitals of Ardabil University of Medical Sciences in 2011.

In this study 74 mother of low birth weight neonate with age range of 15 to 45، with literacy، and not addicted، gestational age of 36 weeks or more and newborn with birth weight of 2500 grams or less، without having congenital anomalies or diagnosed disease that had been discharge with her mother and without any contraindication for the breastfeeding، were randomly assigned to two groups، consulting (n=37) and common education (n=37) were placed. In case of hospitalization during the study and if breastfeeding neonate by mother، is impossible، these infants were excluded. Mothers during the five sessions of counseling received necessary training and were controlled infants weight by using Seca scales during the meeting. Scales and questionnaires were used for collecting data and software SPSS- 17 used for data analysis.

Average of birth weight was 2416. 21140. 46 gr in consulting group and 2367. 56172. 79 gr، in common educational group. After the end of study، the average weight in consulting group was 3618. 91394. 38 and in common educational group was 3168. 10368. 62 (P=0. 007).

The findings of this research show that consulting with mothers can be an effective method for making easy the growth of neonates.