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Nutritional support is a fundamental component of the care of the extremely preterm infant, including the "micro preemie" (here defined as a baby born weighing less than 500 g), but goes beyond considerations of milk as a food. This is because milk from an infant's own mother, unlike currently available substitutes, additionally provides invaluable non-nutritive benefits. Nutritional support requires suitable devices or techniques to administer nutrients enterally or intravenously, products shown to be safe in preterm populations, and efficacy demonstrated in respect of important functional outcomes. Sadly, preterm feeding remains characterised by a deficit of evidence. In this chapter, we will briefly describe the history of preterm nutrition, discuss current enteral and parenteral practice, important evidence gaps, a summary of approaches for evaluating nutritional practice, and key considerations for future endeavour. Our discussion refers to all extremely preterm infants and it not confined to the micro preemie. Copyright © 2022. Published by Elsevier Ltd.

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James Webbe, Sabita Uthaya, Neena Modi. Nutrition for the micro preemie: Beyond milk. Seminars in fetal & neonatal medicine. 2022 Jun;27(3):101344

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