Good evening all, in our centre in UMTH-Maiduguri, Nigeria SCBU, whether term baby or Preterm baby, we start with taste feed commemcing it at 20ml/kg body weight per day divided every 3 hrly feed and advance at the same rate if the child tolerate. The taste feed actually given to the preterm is to prime the gut. These depend pretty much on the gestation of the preterm, until the 4th-5th day/when there no residue after each feed.
Dr Simon Pius Neonatologist University of Maiduguri Borno State, North-eastern Nigeria . simonpius2000@yahoo.co.uk, simonp@unimaid.edu.ng