Complementary Feeding for Preterm Newborns
A special issue of Nutrients (ISSN 2072-6643). This special issue belongs to the section "Pediatric Nutrition".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (10 May 2022) | Viewed by 2399
Special Issue Editor
Interests: breast milk; oral feeding; prematurity; preterm infants; complementary feeds
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Dear Colleagues,
In comparison to term infants, whose needs for energy and nutrients may not exceed what is provided by breast milk for at least 6 months, there are increased demands for preterm infants that may exceed breast milk supplies sooner. Unfortunately, immature feeding skills and intestinal underdevelopment may preclude oral feeding success beyond the time when complementary feeding could otherwise be optimally introduced. Despite this, preterm infants are often weaned with respect to complementary feedings before their term counterparts. For this Special Issue, I am soliciting your contributions in order to better define the importance of the timing and composition of complementary feeding for preterm newborns. What specific nutritional or hormonal deficiencies occur in preterm infants that are exclusively fed maternal or donor breast milk? Does earlier or later introductions of complementary feedings improve short-term or long-term outcomes? How does the introduction of complementary feedings influence the developing microbiome or the duration of breast feeding? Should preterm infants begin to receive the same complementary foods that term infants typically receive at 6 months corrected postmenstrual age, or can the timing of complementary food introduction be individualized by observed patterns of growth and development? What growth patterns are optimal, and how are those patterns influenced by complementary feedings? How should recommendations be modified for infants with oral aversion, a history of intestinal injury or oral feeding difficulty? The purpose of this Special Issue of Nutrients is to define and expand our shared understanding of optimal complementary feeding for preterm infants.
Dr. Robert D. Roghair
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- breast milk
- oral feeding
- prematurity
- preterm infants
- complementary feeds
- growth
- development
- microbiome
- intestinal function
