Importance For many very low-birth-weight (VLBW) infants, there is insufficient mother’s milk,
and a supplement of pasteurized donor human milk or preterm formula is required. …

Vertebral and metaphyseal dysplasia, spasticity with cerebral calcifications, and strong
predisposition to autoimmune diseases are the hallmarks of the genetic disorder …

It is universally accepted that breast milk is the optimum exclusive source of nutrition for the
first six months of life, and may remain part of the healthy infant diet for the first two years of …

Background Human milk-based fortifiers (HMBFs) are being adopted in neonatal care to
enrich the nutrients in human milk for very low birth weight (VLBW) infants despite being costly …

It has been unequivocally proven that human breast milk is the ideal source of nutrition for
infants. However, mothers of preterm infants face a number of barriers to providing sufficient …

The microbiome, of which the bacterial component alone (microbiota), is estimated to
include 10 times more cells than human cells of the body, blooms immediately after birth and …

… d ; Unger, Sharon a,b,e … Unger's research is funded through a Canadian Institutes of
Health Programmatic Grant in Food and Health entitled, ‘Optimizing Mothers’ for Feeding …

BACKGROUND: Provision of pasteurized donor human milk, as a bridge to mother’s own
milk, is the standard of care for very low-birth-weight infants in hospital. The aim of this …

Nutrient fortifiers are added to human milk to support the development of very-low-birth-weight
infants. Currently, bovine-milk-based fortifiers (BMBFs) are predominantly administered, …

Background When mother's milk is insufficient, pasteurized human donor milk (DM) is the
recommended supplement for hospitalized very-low-birth-weight infants. The current method of …