This session is focused on providing practitioners with cutting edge and innovative nutrition strategies for the feeding the high risk neonatal infant.

Objectives:

Develop strategies to improve growth rates of neonates in the NICU with effective enteral and parenteral feeding regimens
Identify the role of human milk in the NICU and subsequently utilize human milk feeding in practice to improve outcomes of high risk neonates
Implement strategies to assist mother’s in achieving adequate milk supply
Identify methods of human milk fortification
Prescribe nutritional supplements for mothers and infants to promote optimal nutrition in the NICU

Laurie Nommsen-Rivers PhD, RD, IBCLC

Research Assistant and Professor of Pediatrics, Department of Pediatrics, Perinatal Institute, Cincinnati Childrens Hospital Medical Center

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