KD32.3

ICD-11 MMS 2026-01

Neonatal difficulty in feeding at breast

Description

A paediatric condition characterised by a newborn who has difficulty breastfeeding associated with problematic latching on to the breast, poor sucking reflex, structural anomalies, or other issues.

Coding note from above levels

Conditions arising in the perinatal period, even though death or morbidity occurs later, should, as far as possible, be coded to chapter 19, which takes precedence over chapters containing codes for diseases by their anatomical site. For children less than 28 days old, assume that a reported condition developed in the perinatal period, unless the duration is stated and the onset was after the first completed week of life.

Index terms

  • Neonatal difficulty in feeding at breast
  • breast-feeding problem in the newborn
  • newborn difficulty in breast feeding

Exclusions from above levels

  • 6B83 – Avoidant-restrictive food intake disorder
  • 01 – Certain infectious or parasitic diseases - acquired after birth
  • 02 – Neoplasms
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  • 05 – Endocrine, nutritional or metabolic diseases
  • 08 – Certain congenital diseases of the nervous system
  • 20 – Congenital malformations, deformations and chromosomal abnormalities
  • 22 – Injury, poisoning or certain other consequences of external causes
  • 3A10 – Hereditary haemolytic anaemia
  • 4A01.03 – Transient hypogammaglobulinaemia of infancy
  • 9B71.3 – Retinopathy of prematurity
  • BC43 – congenital cardiomyopathy
  • DA93.0 – Paralytic ileus
  • EA50.Z – Pemphigus neonatorum
  • EH40.00 – Cradle cap
  • http://id.who.int/icd/entity/588616678 – Gastroenteritis or colitis of infectious origin
  • http://id.who.int/icd/entity/609214049 – Congenital gonococcal infection

Sibling codes

  • KD32.0 – Slow feeding of newborn
  • KD32.1 – Underfeeding of newborn
  • KD32.2 – Overfeeding of newborn
  • KD32.4 – Failure to thrive in newborn
  • KD32.Y – Other specified feeding problems of newborn
  • KD32.Z – Feeding problems of newborn, unspecified

Foundation entity

Neonatal difficulty in feeding at breast – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/963919665

Part of: KD32: Feeding problems of newborn › 19: Certain conditions originating in the perinatal period