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Melinda Elliott

Sep 29, 2026

12:55
I myself do not.
12:57
like.
12:57
So he likes cow milk.
12:58
I'm a big fan of personally drinking cow milk.
13:01
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.
13:22
And the other thing that's going on during that time is brain growth.
13:28
And, you know, you might be surprised to know that baby's brains like.
16:29
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
12:08
But when we're talking about caring for an extremely premature infant, how important is nutrition to their survival and their development?
12:19
Critical to both.
12:20
Nutrition is critical to survival because they are born with essentially no fat stores.
12:27
They will not survive if they do not receive at the very least a glucose infusion right away.
12:34
But glucose alone or dextrose is not enough because they already are at a protein deficit.
12:41
So we have to find a way to nourish them.
12:43
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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21:58
Yeah.

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