Oral feeding practices and discharge timing for moderately preterm infants

Oral feeding skills of moderately preterm infants are not mature at birth. To establish the relationship between postmenstrual age at introduction of first oral feeding and attainment of full oral feeding and hospital discharge for moderately preterm infants. Multicenter retrospective analysis of a...

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Published in:Early human development 2018-05, Vol.120, p.46-52
Main Authors: Brumbaugh, Jane E., Colaizy, Tarah T., Saha, Shampa, Van Meurs, Krisa P., Das, Abhik, Walsh, Michele C., Bell, Edward F.
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Birth Weight
Bottle Feeding
Breast Feeding
Cohort Studies
Female
Gestational Age
Hospital discharge
Humans
Infant, Newborn
Infant, Premature
Length of Stay
Male
moderately preterm infants
oral feeding
Patient Discharge
pulmonary disease
Retrospective Studies
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Summary:Oral feeding skills of moderately preterm infants are not mature at birth. To establish the relationship between postmenstrual age at introduction of first oral feeding and attainment of full oral feeding and hospital discharge for moderately preterm infants. Multicenter retrospective analysis of a prospective cohort of moderately preterm infants admitted to a Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development Neonatal Research Network hospital. 6146 infants born at 29–33 weeks' gestation from January 2012 to November 2013. Postmenstrual age at full oral feeding and at hospital discharge. The median postmenstrual age at first oral feeding was 33.9 weeks (interquartile range 33.1–34.3). For each week earlier at first oral feeding, full oral feeding occurred 4.5 days earlier (p 
ISSN:0378-3782
1872-6232
1872-6232
DOI:10.1016/j.earlhumdev.2018.04.001