Nutrition & Feeding

What is your experience with this condition and performing frenotomy? Thanks

CALL FOR PARTICIPATION This is a call for participation in a study titled “Cup Feeding in the ICU: The Influence of Knowledge, Beliefs, Experience, and Education.” If you have experience caring for stable preterm infants who are unable to breastfeed, we need your help! This study is being done by a graduate student at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst (Sameh Ghareeb) as part of the requirements for a doctoral degree. The purpose of this research is to identify the knowledge, belief, preference, and past behaviors of health care providers regarding feeding types for preterm infants who are not fully able to breastfeed. If you agree to take part in this stud…

Namaste What are your policies regarding feeding of the preterm of newborns specifically pertaining the following questions. When to start feeds (LBW/VLBW/ELBW) ? What should be the initial volume of feeds and volume of increment ? What to feed (EBM/Donor milk/Preterm formula) ? When to add HMF ? How long do you store the milk after adding HMF ? Where do you store it? How do you define feed intolerance and how do you tackle it ? Any other information on feeding of the preterm newborn Would be obliged if you could provide references ? You can send me an answer to my directly on kpsanghvi@hotmail.com

Hi friends We are trying to change from a conservative to more aggressive feeding protocol based on current evidence on its safety. We will be using breast milk exclusively. I have seen the previous post on this topic but looking for a formal protocol/algorithm on feeding and dealing with gastric residuals. Appreciate your help! Mike sukumar MD Neonatologist Rockville MD USA

Hi - our NICU team has been trying to be more consistent with how we transition babies from tube to oral feeds, parents have shared their frustration with differences amongst team members. We have developed a protocol and supporting resources. Here is the link to our project resources: http://sofi.nicu.ca/, ..regards Victoria General Hospital NICU team.

preterm baby his BW is 1000g, enter nicu for gaining wt firstly brown aspirate with trophic feeding then start greenish aspirate and dealed as NEC , so NPO for 1 w without stopping of greenish aspirate reach till 15 ml/day, so gastrograffin study was done and revealed free study and baby pass motion in spite green aspirate so i start with him erythromycin as pro-kinetic drug for 1 w and stop and start feeding again very slowly and now he tolerate 3cc/kg every 3h with no residual now what is your opinion in this case , what is possible diagnosis????

This is regarding the Fonterra recall of its batch of ?Botulism tainted products. - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424127887323681904578646952552857298.html --- http://www.aljazeera.com/news/asia-pacific/2013/08/201383044280669.html -- http://www.stuff.co.nz/business/farming/dairy/9004324/Fonterra-products-whipped-off-Chinese-shelves Has it affected you ? It seems to have already affected Saudi Arabia - http://www.arabnews.com/news/460297 Could members post in this thread if they become aware of new developments in this story

I'd like to know if anyone use omega3 (fish oil OMEGAVEN) in total parenteral nutrition in case of very immature newborns at risk of Parenteral nutrition-Associated Cholestasis. Thanks

How frequent is the incidence of cholestatic jaundice associated with TPN? In my own experience almost all babies, whom we had started on TPN, developed cholestatic jaundice.

Interesting Study Katz Y, Rajuan N, Goldberg MR, Eisenberg E, Heyman E, Cohen A, Leshno M. Early exposure to cow's milk protein is protective against IgE-mediated cow's milk protein allergy. J Allergy Clin Immunol. 2010 Jul;126(1):77-82.e1. Epub 2010 Jun 11. PubMed PMID: 20541249. LINK