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Sep 29, 2026
S.6 E.3 Dr. Melinda Elliott: Nutrition In The NICU Is More Than Just Food For The Smallest Babies, It Is Medicine
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Melinda ElliottGUEST
But you know that for newborns, the ones that are very premature as they're growing and developing, if you're born, say three months early or four months early and you weigh two pounds at birth, you've missed the whole last trimester, right? So you've missed All of the nutrition your mother would give you had you stayed in the uterus.

Kathy GarrettHOST
So I just think that's really beautiful that, I mean, like with anything, hopefully we're constantly pushing the envelope, moving forward and making people, like you said, One of the biggest
Human Milk as Medicine: Caring for Our Tiniest Patients, with Neonatologist Dr. Melinda Elliott, M.D.
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Michelle HarrisHOST
But when we're talking about caring for an extremely premature infant, how important is nutrition to their survival and their development?

Melinda ElliottGUEST
Nutrition is critical to survival because they are born with essentially no fat stores.

Melinda ElliottGUEST
They will not survive if they do not receive at the very least a glucose infusion right away.

Melinda ElliottGUEST
But glucose alone or dextrose is not enough because they already are at a protein deficit.

Melinda ElliottGUEST
And, you know, historically in the U.S. NICUs, the first type of special nourishment we learned about was intravenous nutrition.
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