Work package C: Information for mothers, i.e. parents, prepartal consultation
VLBW
PREMATURE BIRTH
For the purpose of informing mothers and their partners, a multi-tool intervention-package will be developed. The package will contain checklists for the prepartal consultation between mothers, their partners, and staff member of the neonatal team (e.g. doctors, nurses or midwives) who are responsible for treatment of VLBW infant(s) and/or their mothers in the case of a premature birth. The checklist for medical staff will be based on the WHO Surgery Checklist [To support mothers and their partners in transferring received information into practice, ‘mom bags’ will be assembled, which will include equipment, e.g., syringes for collecting colostrum and several flyers with different informational focal points on lactation initiation and maintenance.The designed material will be pre-tested in a convenience sample population of mothers of VLBW preterm infants recruited within relevant groups of social media platforms and will be adjusted upon feedback by the target group (mothers who gave birth to a preterm or mothers whose infant was treated in a NICU).