Effect of maternal diabetes on time to full oral feedings in infants admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit.

Objective: To compare the time to oral feeds in infants born to mothers with and without diabetes.

Study Design: Retrospective study of infants born at or after 34 weeks gestational age and admitted between 1/1/2020 to 01/31/2022. Time to full oral feedings was compared between infants born to mothers with and without diabetes (267 versus 918) Continuous and binomial variables were analyzed with the Mann Whitney U test and the Chi-Square test respectively.

Reducing Procedural Pain and Avoiding Peripheral Intravenous Catheters by Implementing a Feeding Protocol for Late Preterm Infants: A Quality Improvement Project.

Background: Late preterm births account for a large portion of preterm births, yet the optimal method of nutrition and enteral feeding in this population remains unclear and often involves intravenous (IV) fluids.

Purpose: To develop and implement a late preterm feeding protocol in order to decrease the necessity of IV access, decrease the use of starter parenteral nutrition (PN), and reduce the pain endured by an infant in the neonatal intensive care unit.

Methods: The Plan-Do-Study-Act quality improvement model was utilized as a framework for the implementation of this quality improvement project.

Rates of Comorbidities in Very Low Birth Weight Infants Fed an Exclusive Human Milk Diet Versus a Bovine Supplemented Diet.

Our level III neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) implemented the use of an exclusive human milk diet (EHD) and sought to determine its effect on the severe co-morbidities of preterm infants as well as the potential cost-savings due to the anticipated reduction in these co-morbidities. A retrospective cohort study was completed to determine if an EHD statistically decreased the rate of co-morbidities including length of stay (LOS), days on total parental nutrition (TPN), rates of late onset sepsis, necrotizing enterocolitis (NEC), bronchopulmonary dysplasia (BPD), and severe retinopathy of prematurity (ROP). An EHD significantly decreased the odds of severe ROP (adjusted odds-ratio (aOR)=0.