Feeding of premature infants: use of intrauterine growth charts to calculate volumes

Cockington, R.A.

Medical Journal of Australia 1(5): 220-221

1982


ISSN/ISBN: 0025-729X
PMID: 7201066
Document Number: 188021
Three premature infants who were offered volumes of feed adjusted according to intrauterine growth charts tolerated the increased volumes and regained their projected intrauterine growth . It is suggested that optimum growth of newborn infants should approximate intrauterine growth, and that it should be possible to achieve such growth.

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