Article ; Online: Electroencephalographic activity during direct breastfeeding and breast milk expression in primiparous mothers.
2024 Volume 189, Page(s) 105945
Abstract: Breastfeeding is recognized worldwide as the best option for infant feeding. Expressing breast milk is an alternative for mothers to provide their infants all the benefits of maternal milk. During breast milk expression, mothers receive a distinct kind ... ...
| Abstract | Breastfeeding is recognized worldwide as the best option for infant feeding. Expressing breast milk is an alternative for mothers to provide their infants all the benefits of maternal milk. During breast milk expression, mothers receive a distinct kind of sensory stimulation, because there is no direct bodily or affective interaction with their infants, many women report feeling isolated, generating a love-hate relation with pumping, and even low levels of satisfaction while expressing breast milk. While it is well known that the prefrontal, parietal, and temporal cortices play important roles in the emotional and cognitive processing of maternal stimuli, knowledge about how these cortical areas function during breastfeeding is lacking. This study was designed to characterize EEG activity in the prefrontal and parietal cortices and the affective scores of primiparous breastfeeding mothers during two conditions of milk expression: breast milk expression and direct breastfeeding. Participants reported higher valence and arousal and a pleasant state during direct breastfeeding. In the direct breastfeeding condition, both prefrontal areas showed a higher absolute power (AP) of the slow bands, with a lower AP of the alpha band in the parietal cortex. A lower correlation between frontopolar and dorsolateral areas with a higher correlation between prefrontal and parietal cortices was obtained mainly in the right hemisphere. This EEG activity could be linked to an internal state of focused attention and, simultaneously, open monitoring of the environment that suggests an integration of the motive-emotional and cognitive processes necessary for adequate mother-baby interaction during direct breastfeeding. |
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| MeSH term(s) | Infant ; Female ; Humans ; Breast Feeding/psychology ; Mothers/psychology ; Breast Milk Expression ; Milk, Human ; Electroencephalography | |||||
| Language | English | |||||
| Publishing date | 2024-01-20 | |||||
| Publishing country | Ireland | |||||
| Document type | Journal Article | |||||
| ZDB-ID | 752532-1 | |||||
| ISSN | 1872-6232 ; 0378-3782 | |||||
| ISSN (online) | 1872-6232 | |||||
| ISSN | 0378-3782 | |||||
| DOI | 10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2024.105945 | |||||
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