There is no doubt that breastmilk is the best milk for the newborn baby. Even for a preterm baby, biological mother's milk is the best, and specially tailored to the baby's needs. The hazards of bottle feeding and milk formulae, especially in a developing country are well known and require no elaboration. In view of the enormous advantage of breastmilk, even low birth weight babies both preterm...

Transient late-onset hyperglycemia was detected in a very low birth weight (VLBW) infant (gestational age 28 weeks, birth weight 1,082 g) by routine point-of-care glucose monitoring.　The infant had no clinical symptom.　Serial continuous glucose monitoring (CGM) was conducted for 3 days at 31, 35, and 39 weeks' post conceptual age.　The difference values between the maximum and minimum blood gluc...

Satisfactory nutrition of the low birth weight infant concerns the nurse, obstetrician, pediatrician, and nutritionist. It may be that at present the most satisfactory feeding for the low birth weight infants is human milk. Such factors as protein quantity and quality, fat quantity and quality, immune factors, and osmolar factors may be uniquely suitable for the human infant regardless of his w...

Maternal depression and anxiety represent risk factors for the quality of early mother-preterm infant interactions, especially in the case of preterm birth. Despite the presence of many studies on this topic, the comorbidity of depressive and anxious symptoms has not been sufficiently investigated, as well as their relationship with the severity of prematurity and the quality of early interacti...

There are three major considerations affecting the quantity and quality of protein to be given to a low-birth-weight baby. These are (a) requirements for normal growth and body composition, (b) development of protein and amino acid metabolism, and (c) renal function. A number of different techniques have been used to estimate the requirements in adults, for example, nitrogen balance, body compo...

background and aims:the most common reason in neonatal mortality rate in the world is low birth weight (lbw). the objective of our study was to determine the prevalence and related factors associated in birth weight in garmsar, iran in 2013. methods: this cross sectional study was carried out on 683 live births which delivered in garmsar in 2013. the required information was collected by examin...

OBJECTIVES To determine the survival rates for infants weighing 500 - 1 499 g according to birth weight (BW) and gestational age (GA). DESIGN This was a retrospective cohort study. Pregnancy and delivery data were collected soon after birth and neonatal data at discharge or at death. SETTING Chris Hani Baragwanath Hospital (CHBH), a public-sector referral hospital, affiliated to the Univers...

OBJECTIVE Infant mortality rates (IMR) and neonatal mortality rates (NMR) in the United States have not decreased recently. The purpose of this study was to determine the contributions of birth weight and gestational age subgroups to the IMR and NMR in the United States. METHODS We used the most recent (1983-2005) US linked birth and infant death data and simple regression analysis to determi...