Human Milk, Breast Milk

The purpose of this research study is to understand how infants metabolize different meals and to develop clinical tools which identify infants as having two different phenotypes. The phenotypes are the 1) metabolic "thriftiness" and 2) the metabolic flexibility.

The research was conducted at the Istanbul Zeynep Kamil Women's And Children's Diseases Education And Research Hospital's Maternity Service between the dates of June 15 and December 31, 2025. It is a randomized controlled experimental research. The data consist of a total of 32 primiparous mothers whose baby was hospitalized in the neonatal intensive care unit who met the criteria for inclusion in the study. Mothers were divided into groups (16 experiments, 16 controls) by randomization method. The data of the research were collected using the Personal Information Form, the Status Anxiety Scale and the Inadequate Milk Perception Scale after obtaining the permission of the ethics committee and the institution. Virtual reality glasses were applied to the mothers in the experimental group. Only routine clinical care was applied to the mothers in the control group.