ABSTRACT

Nutrition continues to play an increasingly important role in neonatal health. Provision of optimal nutrients in the most vulnerable infants to preserve their neurodevelopmental potential must be balanced with the risk of pushing gastrointestinal tolerance and risk for necrotizing enterocolitis. Maximizing human milk intake now plays a key role in attenuating much of this risk. As more complex fortification for human milk starts being adopted, attention on adding back risk will need monitoring.