Growth Benefits of Own Mother's Milk in Preterm Infants Fed Daily Individualized Fortified Human Milk.

The influence of types of human milk (HM)-raw own mother's milk (OMM), pasteurized OMM, and donor milk (DM)-was evaluated for growth in premature infants fed exclusively HM with controlled nutritional intakes using daily individualized HM fortification (IHMF). Growth and nutritional intakes were prospectively collected in preterm infants (<32 weeks) fed IHMF and compared in infants fed predominantly (≥75%) OMM and DM. The influence of HM types (raw OMM, pasteurized OMM, and DM) on growth were also evaluated in the whole population.

[Advantages of individualized fortification of human milk for preterm infants].

Despite the benefits of human milk fortification, nutrients of human milk are not sufficient to cover the greater needs of very low birth weight and to ensure a growth similar to that of premature infants fed with preterm formula. These differences could be related to the variation in the macronutrient composition of expressed breast milk with lower protein and energy content. Unfortunately there is unusually no information on macronutrients composition prior human milk fortification.

Evaluation of weight gain composition during the first 2 months of life in breast- and formula-fed term infants using dual energy X-ray absorptiometry.

Healthy term breast- and adapted formula-fed infants show similar weight gain and weight gain composition during the first months of life.

An infant formula free of glycomacropeptide prevents hyperthreoninemia in formula-fed preterm infants.

Background: Hyperthreoninemia is a well-known phenomenon in infants fed a whey protein-predominant formula. Sweet whey is commonly used for the production of these whey-predominant infant milk formulas. Sweet whey contains not only whey proteins but also the threonine-rich glycomacropeptide (GMP).