Mother's milk feeding in gross prematurity

Singh, D.; Maria, P.

Indian Pediatrics 25(6): 582

1988


ISSN/ISBN: 0019-6061
PMID: 3148557
Document Number: 323598
A preterm infant of 28 weeks gestational age and weighing 900 g was fed nasogastrically with expressed breast milk every 2 h at 4 days old, the amount of milk given increasing gradually to 200 ml/kg daily. Nasogastric feeding was gradually replaced by bottle feeds with expressed breast milk at 28 days old when body weight was 1200 g. The infant weighed 2.5 and 5.13 kg at 3 and 6 months old, respectively.

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