Premium
Feeding of premature infants
Author(s) -
Cockington Richard A.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
medical journal of australia
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.904
H-Index - 131
eISSN - 1326-5377
pISSN - 0025-729X
DOI - 10.5694/j.1326-5377.1982.tb132276.x
Subject(s) - growth retardation , intrauterine growth restriction , premature newborn , medicine , premature labor , obstetrics , pediatrics , biology , pregnancy , gestation , genetics
Three premature infants who were offered feeding volumes adjusted according to intrauterine growth charts tolerated the increased volumes and regained their projected intrauterine growth. It is suggested that optimal neonatal growth should approximate intrauterine growth, and that it should be possible to achieve such growth.