Early [breast] milk feeds 'benefits premature babies'

[Pattypans]

Early milk feeds 'benefits premature babies'
By Caroline Parkinson
Health editor, BBC News website
20 April 2012

At-risk premature babies would benefit from being given milk feeds earlier, a study has suggested.

The University of Oxford study found babies were not at a higher risk of severe bowel problems if moved off tube-feeds early, as was feared.

Four hundred babies, born at least five weeks early and small for their age, were studied for the Pediatrics paper.

The premature baby charity Bliss said it hoped the findings would lead to a change in feeding practices.

Read more http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-177...PublicRSS20-sa

[Islander]

Changed the tag for you. That's funny, I didn't think anybody was using tags!
And yes, I moved it to Pregnancy although either one would have been a toss-up... Tough call.

[Pattypans]

Thanks, Islander. Do the tags help the search engines find the articles? I don't really know what they're for, except on some sites they seem to be there to help you find articles, though in a funny kind of way.

[Islander]

It's a help in searching for articles by topic, but only if everybody were using them...

[hides head in shame]

[Pattypans]

Islander, thank you for using the subjunctive properly!

[Islander]

Were it not for you, it would have gone unremarked....

[Pattypans]

Were it not for you, it would have gone unremarked....

Where is the rotfl smiley? I need it now.

[Aaltrude]

Where is the rotfl smiley? I need it now.

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[Pattypans]

Were it not for you, it would have gone unremarked....

[Pattypans]

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Thanks, Aaltrude!