A Simple Change in Process Results in Significant Improvement in the Rate of First Feeding at Breast

This nurse-driven initiative essentially costs nothing other than interest and a willingness to alter individual practice routines. The collaboration between the nurse and mother regarding a first oral feeding also highlighted the mother's expanding role in the daily care of her infant. The NICU experience by its very nature robs parents of so many facets of parenting, at least for a time. The First Feeding at Breast initiative returned one big first to the mother.