Breastfeeding experience in infant with low birthweight during the pandemic

Abstract

Covid-19 can attack all ages includes the infant due to high level of infection. Infant with low birthweight is a population that is susceptible to the immune system that has been not mature therefore they have bigger risk to have a respiratory infection. Baby birth rate with low birthweight during the pandemic have increased, meanwhile the breastfeeding practice still becomes a problem, for multifactorial reason, prematurely born baby have lower possibility to begin breastfeeding and their mothers tend to breastfeed in shorter duration compared to baby born at term. Aim: explore the experience of breastfeeding in baby/infant with low birthweight during the pandemic. Method: the method used is scoping review by using checklist Prism- ScR where it has 22 items of instrument, 20 items of important report and 2 items optional, identifying scoping review question by using PEOs framework; selecting relevant article based on inclusion and exclusion criteria by utilizing data based such as PubMed, Willey Online Library, ProQuest, and Google Scholar to conduct literature searching; selecting article by using Prism flowchart, charting data, arranging and reporting the result.