Your friend is considering feeding her preterm infant formula rather than breastfeeding the infant because she is a working mom and believes that feeding the infant formula would be more convenient and supply sufficient nutrients. What would you tell her about the nutritional, health, and developmental benefits of breastfeeding preterm infants to persuade her to consider breastfeeding as the better option?
What will be an ideal response?
The nutritional benefits of breastfeeding preterm infants include ease of protein digestion, fat absorption, and improved lactose digestion. The known health and developmental benefits include better visual acuity, greater motor and mental development at 1.5 years of age, greater verbal intelligence quotient at 7–8 years of age, and a lower incidence of serious infectious disease, including necrotizing enterocolitis and sepsis, even among infants who also receive some human milk substitutes. Nosocomial infection rates may also be decreased by as much as 50 percent in premature infants who receive at least 50 percent of their daily feedings from the mother's milk.
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