Learning Objectives:
- Summarize the benefits of human milk and an exclusive human milk diet for very low birth weight (VLBW) infants
- Outline causes of poor growth in VLBW infants
- Evaluate long-term, post-discharge growth in appropriate-for-gestational-age versus small for gestational age (SGA) premature infants who received an exclusive human milk diet
- Develop strategies to promote growth on an exclusive human milk diet
Speaker:
Keli Hawthorne, MS, RD, LD
Director of Clinical Research
Department of Pediatrics
Dell Medical School
University of Texas at Austin
