2025, Vol. 8, Issue 2, Part A

Background of the study: Labour is a natural process, in third stage of labour the parturient mother faces many problems such as postpartum haemorrhage, retained placenta which may lead to increased mortality and morbidity rate. These can be prevented by breast feeding especially early suckling through breast crawling technique.

Objective: To evaluate the effectiveness of breast crawling on outcome of third stage of labour among parturient mothers in interventional and routine care group.

Research methodology: True experimental, post-test only control group design was adopted. 80 study participants were recruited 40 in each group using simple random sampling technique. Structured questionnaire and observation tools were used to collect the data.

Results: The results revealed that, calculated value of unpaired ‘t’ test for duration and amount of blood loss (31.76), (14.89) was greater than the table value 3.37 significant at p<0.001.

Conclusion: The study concluded that the Breast crawling technique was effective on outcome of third stage of labour.