Mothers are unlikely to pass COVID-19 to their newborns if they follow recommended precautions, a small study suggests.
and skin-to-skin contact. At 1 month of age, 53 babies had a virtual checkup and were well and growing normally, according to the study published July 23 in-- if they follow infection control procedures, researchers concluded.
Study co-leader Dr. Patricia DeLaMora, another pediatric infectious disease specialist at Weill Cornell, noted that skin-to-skin contact and breastfeeding are important for bonding between mother and child and for the baby's long-term health. "Our findings suggest that babies born to mothers with COVID-19 infection can still benefit from these safely, if appropriate infection control measures are followed," she said in a journal news release.
Dr. Melissa Medvedev, an assistant professor of pediatrics at the University of California, San Francisco, wrote an editorial that accompanied the study."Robust population-based data are needed to quantify the incidence of complications among pregnant women and neonates, and to understand rates and routes of vertical and horizontal transmission, including asymptomatic transmission," Medvedev wrote.
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