title: Feeding premature infants.
abstract: We have tried to offer a rational approach to the methods of premature infant feeding. Most of our information is incomplete, and many of the presumptions used in deciding feeding technique are not based on reliable scientific data. The calculations presented in this discussion are valuable as teaching methods in the nursery. The complexity of the questions about premature infant feeding makes it necessary for personnel in the neonatal unit to focus regularly on infant feeding and to allow for time dedicated to considering their suggestions.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pediatrics, East Carolina University School of Medicine, Greenville, North Carolina.
authors.forename: A F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Robertson
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bhatia
mesh_terms: D004750:Enteral Nutrition; D006801:Humans; D007225:Infant Food; D007227:Infant Nutritional Physiological Phenomena; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007234:Infant, Premature; D010288:Parenteral Nutrition