Short Term Neonatal Outcomes of Colocating and Breastfeeding Infants of Mothers Who Tested Positive for SARS-COV-2

Background: There is a paucity of data on the neonatal outcomes of maternal SARS-COV2 infection which has emerged as a pandemic spreading rapidly across the world. Further, conflicts in current guidelines exist on whether to routinely separate infants from infected mothers in the hospital, to utilize shared decision-making to regulate care or to encourage exclusive breastfeeding and standard feeding guidelines for these infants. At our hospital in New York City which has been the epicenter of the infection in the US, shared decision-making between the mother and clinical team was utilized. Mothers who …