Adherence to Intervention and Nutrition Intake Status
breast milk consumed, breast milk
During 0 to 5 days of neonatal age, the mothers of 187 neonates (98.4%) in the MEC group ingested a whole egg, whereas the mothers of 184 neonates (96.8%) in the MEE group eliminated eggs from their diets. The adherence rate for all mothers was 97.6%. On day 3, the median amount of breast milk consumed per feed was 12 mL for both groups (eTable 1 in At ages 1, 4, 7, and 10 months, the infants’ nutritional methods (ie, exclusively breast milk, mixed feeding, formula intake, and maternal egg intake) did not differ significantly between the MEC and MEE groups (eTable 2 and eTable 3 in 