NCT06358729Completed
Pre-Pregnancy Weight Loss and Baby Behavior Study
The Impact of Pre-Pregnancy Weight Loss on Infant Sucking Behavior in Response to a Challenging Nipple
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 5 May 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This study will help researchers learn more about how babies respond to bottle nipples with larger or smaller holes. Researchers guess that infants of mothers with obesity who did not lose weight prior to pregnancy will have the greatest Suck Effect on the challenging compared with the typical nipple.
- Status (registry)
- Completed
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 10 (actual)
- First submitted
- 5 Apr 2024
- Start date
- Feb 2025
- Primary completion date
- Jul 2025
- Lead sponsor
- University of Michigan
- Diseases
- Obesity
- NCT number
- NCT06358729
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional
- Participants enrolled: 10
- From Feb 2025 to the primary completion date, Jul 2025
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Criteria the registry did not label
- To be eligible to participate in this study...
- Mother
- -Current or previous participation in the PLAN study resulting in a live birth.
- Child
- Mother participated in PLAN study during child's gestation
- Infant birth weight (From PLAN study records) appropriate (≥ 3rd percentile and ≤ 97th percentile) for gestational age and sex based on US Natality Data set (Oken et al, BMC Pediatrics 2003).
- Infant is 3.0 to 6.0 months old at Consent.
- Biological mother is legal guardian by maternal report.
- Biological mother is full time custodial guardian by maternal report (versus sharing custody such that infant does not live with her full time).
- Infant typically consumes at least 2 ounces in one feeding from an artificial nipple and bottle at least once per week by maternal report.
- Stated willingness by mother to comply with all study procedures and availability for the duration of the study.
Age in the registry: 3 months to - · Sex: All · Accepts healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
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| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| The University of Michigan Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Ann Arbor | United States | Unknown status |
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