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Podcast: Lo’s Lactation Lab
Episode: Episode 90 Human Milk Feeding the Preterm Infant: You Have Other Choices
Description: Have you ever been surprised by the birth of a preterm infant? Or perhaps you work with families in the perinatal period and want to know better how to support them after preterm deliveries. There are many outdated practices that continue in the NICU for preterm babies that make feeding human milk more difficult.On this episode IBCLC and host Lo Nigrosh discusses: Outdated practices that get applied to all NICU babies Current research related to nursing preterm babies directly from the baby The importance of stimulating milk production as soon as possible Differences in the preterm baby that do...